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Maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica bowl with narrow rim, painted in blue and orange with a disk surrounded by concentric circles.
Buff earthenware, thrown and tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and orange with a freckled appearance. Shape 47. Circular with narrow slightly curved rim and deep well. In the middle is an orange disk surrounded by two blue concentric circles; on the rim, two blue bands and a wide orange band.
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: 11.5 cm
Height: 3.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century, Late
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1520
CE
The provenance of this bowl and its similarity to a fragment of a bowl found near the Duomo in Orvieto and given to the Fitzwilliam in 1904, and to bowls excavated in Orvieto more recently, makes it likely that it was made there. Comparable bowls were made in Lazio.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and orange)
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and orange with a freckled appearance.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.157-1991
Primary reference Number: 72246
Packing number: EURCER 947
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72246 Accessed: 2024-11-21 15:54:59
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University of Cambridge}}
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