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Probably
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Maker)
Renaissance maiolica two-handled bowl, painted in blue and yellow with a chequered medallion surrounded by concentric circles.
Earthenware, thrown with applied handles, tin-glazed creamy-white inside and outside; base partly glazed. Painted in blue and yellow.
Shape 45. Circular with curved sides and two loop handles, standing on a narrow foot.
In the middle is a chequered medallion surrounded by concentric circles: three blue, one orange, four blue, one orange and one blue. The outside of the rim is decorated with six blue inverted half-palmettes.
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
Height: 6.1 cm
Width: 15.9 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
(1991-04-29)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th century
Early 16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1450
CE
-
1510
CE
During the second half of the 15th century simply decorated two-handled bowls were made in immense quantities in central Italy, judging by the numbers extant. They are usually decorated in two or three colours with a central medallion containing a stylized plant motif, grid or spots, surrounded by concentric circles, and may have horizontal bands or fan-like palmettes or half-palmettes on the exterior. Large quantities of them have been recovered from butti (rubbish pits) in Orvieto. A bowl with analogous decoration was found at a kiln site adjacent to the Pozzo della Cava in via della Cava, Orvieto.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and yellow)
Rim
Diameter 11.2 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white inside and outside; base partly glazed. Painted in blue and yellow.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.153-1991
Primary reference Number: 72175
Packing number: EURCER 436
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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