IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48525 accession number: C.67-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, the exterior is tin-glazed; the interior, lead-glazed. Painted in blue, and with yellow lustre. Bulbous body with a slender neck widening towards the slanting rim, and strap handle. In a rectangular panel on the front, St Francis holding a rosary, kneels facing towards a Cross flanked by plants. On each side is a stem and buds between two vertical lines; below, a band of scallops and a series of alternating blue, reserved white and yellow lustre bands. The upper part of the neck and the back and sides of the handle are lustred. object type: Maiolica jug painted in blue and gold lustre with St Francis at prayer, with borders of stems and buds, a band of scallops and horizontal and vertical lines title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Florence, where purchased by F. Leverton Harris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: F. Leverton Harris creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48525 PEOPLE ------------------- St Francis SUBJECTS ------------------- crucifix praying rosary plants crucifix praying rosary plants CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica category: lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century, Early# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Deruta pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- The Leverton Harris Collection Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ceramiche Umbre dal Medioevo allo Storicismo, Parte Prima, Orvieto e Deruta Museo della Ceramica Duca di Martina, La Maiolica Italiana ---