Maker: Unknown (Probably)
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.
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.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest
Height: 24.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1960) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1420
CE
-
1450
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( thin dark blue with manganese outlines)
Base
Diameter 13 cm
Mouth
Diameter 15 cm
Across Handles
Width 27.6 cm
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : 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.
Inscription present: oval
Inscription present: half a rectangular label with blue edge
Inscription present: an asterisk
Accession number: C.76-1961
Primary reference Number: 48158
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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