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Pottery: Unidentified Orvieto pottery
Late Medieval maiolica two-handled cup, painted in manganese and green with, on both sides, narrow bands of trellis.
Buff earthenware. Both sides are thinly tin-glazed greyish-white; base unglazed. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 27. Truncated conical bowl with disk base and low loop handles of oval section.
Both sides are decorated with narrow panels of trellis, with a green and two brown horizontal lines above and below, and three manganese vertical lines on each side of the handles.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably part of lot 107; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust
Height: 4.7 cm
Width: 13.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
Circa
1250
CE
-
Circa
1400
CE
Truncated conical cups with two handles were made in Umbria and Lazio. They occur with shallow or deep sides, and are mainly decorated with trellis or grid patterns. They persisted until the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, and also exist with blue decoration (see Cat. no. 152, C.94-1927).
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and copper-green)
Base
Diameter 6.2 cm
Body
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Accession number: C.131-1991
Primary reference Number: 47980
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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