IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48155 accession number: C.2163-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance, maiolica two-handled storage or pharmacy jar, painted in relief-blue and manganese, with birds, oak leaves, dots and stars. title: two-handled jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48155 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds oak oak leaf birds oak oak leaf TECHNIQUES ---------- Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in thick 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 culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica Maioliche italiane del Rinascimento Pottery Decoration Campin's maiolica pitcher Zaffera et similia nella maiolica italiana Tin-glazed Earthenware: from Maiolica, Faience and Delftware to the contemporary ---