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Pottery: Cafaggiolo Workshop
Yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior, but thinly on the latter. Painted in blue, green, dark yellow, and a little manganese.
Ovoid with cylindrical neck and projecting disk base, strap handle and part of an upright spout, joined to the neck by a bridge.
On the front is a circular panel edged with blue, crossed by a label inscribed in blue `So. DI.Z.RADICI ACE/TOSO', imposed over a crutch with a green staff and dark yellow head. The rest of the main field is decorated with blue dentated half-moon flowers, spirals and leaves on coiling stems. Below, and at the junction of the neck and shoulder, are blue, dark yellow and manganese horizontal bands; on the neck, trefoil leaves and spirals with blue, dark yellow and manganese horizontal bands above. Vertical lines of the same colours flank the handle, on which is a green blade-shaped outline enclosing a longitudinal squiggle. Below, there is a curved line and blue striations over which is a manganese SP monogram with a stroke through the tail of the P.
History note: Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and Charles Shannon (1863-1937)
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 30.8 cm
Width: 23.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
16th Century
Production date:
probably
AD 1507
: The date 1507 is suggested because there is archival evidence that the Cafaggiolo workshop supplied pharmacy jars with spouts to the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence in that year.
Made in the workshop founded in 1498 by Piero and Stefano di Filippo di Dimitri Schiavone from Montelupo.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, dark yellow, and a little manganese)
Rim
Diameter 10.9 cm
Base
Diameter 12.9 cm
Tin-glazing : Yellowish buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior, but thinly on the latter. Painted in blue, green, dark yellow, and a little manganese.
Inscription present: monogram with peraph through the tail of the P
Accession number: EC.6-1937
Primary reference Number: 48361
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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