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Potter: Unknown (Possibly)
Late Medieval maiolica flagon, painted in black and relief-blue with oak leaves, berries and trefoil leaves between two horizontal bands of spots and strokes.
Flagon. Earthenware. The interior and exterior are thickly tin-glazed. Painted in black and very dark relief-blue.
Cylindrical with a horizontal rib above the foot, and another below the slightly flaring rim. The angular handle is a restoration.
The main field is decorated with a coiling stem bearing three upright oak leaves, with groups of berries hanging below and three trefoil leaves above. Below are two black bands, blue spots linked by groups of three strokes, and another black band. Above are similar spots and strokes between pairs of black bands.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Height: 24.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century#
19th Century, Late#
20th Century, Early
Medieval
Circa
1400
CE
-
1450
CE
Circa
1875
CE
-
1925
CE
Purporting to be from Faenza or elsewhere in the Romagna.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( black and very dark relief-blue)
Mouth
Diameter 10.9 cm
Base
Diameter 11.5 cm
Body
Accession number: C.141-1991
Primary reference Number: 48048
Packing number: EURCER 481
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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