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Maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica bowl, painted in blue, green and yellow with circles, squares, dots, strokes and stripes.
Earthenware, thrown. The interior is tin-glazed greyish-cream; the exterior lead-glazed pale yellowish-brown. Painted in dark blue, a little pale green, and yellow.
Shape 46. Circular with sloping sides, curving inwards at the top, standing on a solid base.
In the middle, within six narrow concentric blue circles, are eight yellow squares filled alternately with blue dots and small blue circles; above and below are a green and a yellow stripe with blue strokes over them. On the sides, three groups of short vertical blue strokes alternate with three groups of yellow, and below the rim is a wide yellow band between two sets of three narrow blue bands.
History note: Purportedly excavated in Orvieto. Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 15 cm
Height: 5.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1450
CE
-
1500
CE
The bowl was probably among the '27 glazed 15th cent. plates & bowls, said to have been excavated at Orvieto' which H.S. Reitlinger purchased in 1933, some of which can be identified with lots in the Marcioni and Lucatelli sale held by Sotheby's on 16-17 February, 1914. It is therefore likely to have been made and found in Orvieto, although it is possible that one or other of the collectors acquired them elsewhere. This attribution is supported by the finding of bowls of this form in Orvieto at a pottery site adjacent to the Pozzo della Cava and at another further up via della Cava.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, a little pale green, and yellow)
Exterior
composed of
lead-glaze
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Throwing (pottery technique) : Earthenware, thrown, and tin-glazed greyish-cream on the interior; the exterior lead-glazed pale yellowish-brown. Painted in dark blue, a little pale green, and yellow.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.146-1991
Primary reference Number: 72041
Packing number: EURCER 419
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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