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Production: Unknown
Lower part of jug. Earthenware. Tin-glazed pale beige inside and outside; base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange.
Bulbous body with cylindrical neck and disk base; the rim, lip, and handle missing.
On the front is a pear-shaped medallion framed by orange and yellow lines with a loopy brown line over them. Within it is a building with two towers flanked by foliage, with horizontal stripes of each colour and a loopy brown line below. On each side of the medallion there is a green tuft and a curving wavy green line. There is a green band round the edge of the base.
History note: Probably acquired by F. Leverton Harris in Siena.
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 14.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
17th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange) tin-glaze
Accession number: C.883-1927
Primary reference Number: 48309
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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