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Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Pottery)
Late Medieval maiolica cup with one handle, painted in black and green with, on the inside, a shield.
Pale reddish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed beige on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in black and copper-green.
Approximately Shape 21. Circular with carinated sides, narrow foot and one loop handle; the other has been broken off.
Inside, within two black concentric circles, there is a shield with a green border, charged with a green fleur-de-lis, surrounded by cross-hatching. On the outside there are two panels of cross-hatching each flanked by panels of vertical lines, over a green band; on the rim, a green band, and, on the handle, a green horizontal stroke with three black strokes above and below.
History note: Probably William Ridout; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 5.2 cm
Width: 13.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1350
1350
CE
Fleur-de-lis occur frequently on late medieval maiolica, either as independent motifs (see jug C.50-1991), sometimes surrounded by a contour panel, as on a two-handled cup in the Detroit Institute of Arts, or as charges on shields, as on a cup of this type formerly in the Imbert collection, a two-handled bowl in the Casina del Bessarione, Rome, and a lobed bowl in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto. The motif also occurs on maiolica from Lazio.
Decoration:
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and copper-green)
Foot:
Diameter 3.4 cm
Body:
except base Tin-glaze Earthenware
Accession number: C.104-1991
Primary reference Number: 47829
Packing number: EURCER 941
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Cup"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47829 Accessed: 2022-01-17 22:51:54
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Accession Number: C.6.1 & A & B-1974
Accession Number: C.6.7-1974
Accession Number: C.451.3 & A-1928
Accession Number: EC.13.2 & A-1945
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