Two-handled jar: C.76-1961

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown (Probably)

Entities

• Two-handled jar

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

Maiolica, two-handled jar. Painted in blue, on both sides with a lion rampant and 'oak leaves'.

Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the exterior, greyish and thinly applied on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in thin dark blue with manganese outlines.
Ovoid with flat base, short cylindrical neck with projecting rim, and two small strap handles.
Both sides are decorated with a lion rampant with two circular motifs in its body, surrounded by sprays of oak leaves with dots and dashes in the background. On each side of both handles there is a vertical border of blue undulations and scalloped lines. Round the lower part of the body, there are two horizontal manganese bands and round the neck, between pairs of manganese bands, a wavy manganese line with blue splodges in the spaces above and below it. On each handle there is an upward-pointing oak leaf, and below, on the side of the jar, another pointing downwards. Below one handle is a manganese asterisk.

Notes

History note: Charles Damiron; Sotheby's, 16 June 1938, Catalogue of the very choice collection of old Italian majolica and Hispano-Moresque ware, the property of Monsieur Damiron, 8 rue Vaubecour, Lyons, lot 73; A.S.Drey; from 1943, Louis C.G. Clarke.

Legal notes

L.C.G. Clarke Bequest

Place(s) associated

• Florence ⪼ Tuscany ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa 1420 CE - 1450 CE