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Potter: Unknown (Probably)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior, and more thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, yellow, and a little green.
Albarello with slightly waisted body, sloping shoulders, short cylindrical neck, and two twisted handles, each with a thumb print at its base.
The back and front are decorated with rectangular panels bordered by slanting strokes between vertical lines. One contains a label, inscribed `DE CARNE/CRV ISOPIV/COTA CENO(E)/SONIFNO', with four blue half-leaves and three yellow trefoils above and below. The other contains a flower with four elongated yellow petals and a green centre, surrounded by a blue contour line with blue fan-like palmettes in the spaces. Below are blue slanting lines; on the shoulder San Bernardino rays; and, on the neck, yellow dashes between horizontal blue bands. The handles are striped in blue and yellow.
History note: Adolf von Beckerath; Berlin, Lepke, 4 November 1913, Die Majolika-Sammlung Adolf von Beckerath, lot 76, pl. 20. F. Leverton Harris.
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 27.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1470
CE
-
1500
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, yellow, and a little green)
tin-glaze
Rim
Diameter 11.5 cm
Base
Diameter 11.8 cm
Body
Accession number: C.92-1927
Primary reference Number: 48777
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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