Maker: Unknown (District of)
Renaissance, maiolica two-handled storage or pharmacy jar, painted in dark relief-blue and manganese with long-tailed birds, oak leaves, dots and lines.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in dark relief-blue with manganese outlines. Poole, 1995, Shape 42. Ovoid with flat base, short cylindrical neck and two strap handles.
On each side, a long-tailed bird struts in profile to right, surrounded by sprays of oak leaves with dots in the background. On each side of the handles there are three vertical manganese lines, blue undulations and manganese scalloped lines. Round the lower part of the body there are two horizontal manganese bands; on the neck, alternating chevrons and blue spots between pairs of manganese bands. On each handle there are horizontal manganese lines and blue spots, with below, an inverted oak leaf and dots, and above, three spots and dots. On one handle the spots are linked by lines to form an asterisk.
History note: Private collection, London; Alfred Spero, London, from whom purchased on 7 May 1925 by F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 20.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1420
CE
-
1450
CE
This jar is decorated in relief-blue also known as zaffera a rilievo. The pigment was made by mixing imported cobalt-blue and lead, which did not sink into the tin-glaze, and produced a glossy upstanding effect when fired.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and manganese)
Mouth
Diameter 11.5 cm
Base
Diameter 12.1 cm
Across Handles
Width 22.5 cm
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in dark relief-blue with manganese outlines.
Accession number: C.71-1927
Primary reference Number: 48153
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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