IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48153 accession number: C.71-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 August 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance, maiolica two-handled storage or pharmacy jar, painted in dark relief-blue and manganese with long-tailed birds, oak leaves, dots and lines. title: two-handled jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Private collection, London; Alfred Spero, London, from whom purchased on 7 May 1925 by F. Leverton Harris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48153 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird oak oak leaf bird oak oak leaf TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in dark relief-blue with manganese outlines. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1420 - 1450 creation date earliest: 1420 creation date latest: 1450 culture: 15th Century, first half culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - III The Leverton Harris Collection L'arte della maiolica in Italia Zaffera et similia nella maiolica italiana Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado secoli XIV e XV Maiolica before Raphael. Italian ceramics before 1500 Maiolica and Ceramics in the National Museum of the Bargello ---