IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48158 accession number: C.76-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Maiolica, two-handled jar. Painted in blue, on both sides with a lion rampant and 'oak leaves'. title: two-handled jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48158 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion oak oak leaf lion oak oak leaf TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. 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: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Chroniche di Giovanni, Mateo e Filippo Villani ---