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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in manganese and green with, in the middle, a flower surrounded by cross-hatching.
Bowl. Pale buff earthenware. Tin-glazed greyish-beige, the rim and exterior now appearing brown. Painted in manganese-black and copper-green.
Shape 24. Circular with narrow rim, carinated sides, and low foot.
In the middle, within a black-edged green circle, there is a flower surrounded by cross-hatching; on the rim, alternating groups of black and green radiating strokes; and on the exterior, a row of arrow-heads with a black band above and a wider green band between two black below.
History note: Possibly Marcioni-Lucatelli sale, Sotheby's, 16 February, 1914, lot 141; William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 108; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 13.3 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1275
CE
-
Circa
1375
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese-black and copper-green)
Foot
Diameter 4.8 cm
Body
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: pencilled faintly
Accession number: C.130-1991
Primary reference Number: 47979
Packing number: EURCER 911
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 (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47979 Accessed: 2024-12-03 19:09:01
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