Maker: Unknown (District of)
Renaissance, maiolica two-handled storage or pharmacy jar, painted in relief-blue and manganese, with birds, oak leaves, dots and stars.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in thick relief-blue with manganese outlines.
Ovoid with flat base, short slightly flaring neck, and two small strap handles, each formed of two vertical strips pressed together, so that there is a depression running vertically down the middle.
On each side, a long-tailed bird stands in profile to right, surrounded by sprays of oak leaves with dots and stars in the background. On each side of the handles there are three vertical manganese lines. Round the lower part of the body, there are two horizontal manganese bands. On the neck, between pairs of manganese bands, there is a wavy manganese stem with roughly V-shaped leaves in the spaces above and below it. On the handles there are horizontal manganese lines and, on one, two pairs of blue splodges, and on the other, one pair. Below each handle is a manganese `S', flanked on one side by blue C-shaped strokes, with two spirals below, and on the other by two U-shaped strokes.
History note: Professor William R. Lethaby; lent to the Fitzwilliam on 8 March 1917; purchased on 20 July 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £50 (MS Cat. 4730).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1420
CE
-
1450
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and manganese)
Base
Diameter 12.8 cm
Mouth
Diameter 13.5 cm
Across Handles
Width 26.0 cm
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in thick relief-blue with manganese outlines.
Inscription present: rectangular with cut corners inscribed in faded black ink in Dr J.W.L. Glaisher's hand
Accession number: C.2163-1928
Primary reference Number: 48155
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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