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Maker: Unidentified
Renaissance maiolica jug, painted in blue and orange with, on the front, a 'ladder' frame surrounding rectangles, dots, stripes and strokes.
Pale buff earthenware. Covered inside and outside with unevenly applied and speckled beige tin-glaze; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue and orange. Squat globular body with disk base, expanding at the top into a wide mouth, deeply pinched at the front to form a spout; broad strap handle. On the front within an oval blue `ladder' frame are two rows of five crossed and dotted rectangles reserved in a broad horizontal orange stripe with vertical blue strokes above and below.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably lot 33; 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: 10.9 cm
Width: 11.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
15th Century, Late
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1480
CE
-
1520
CE
W.B. Honey in the catalogue of the Ridout Collection attributed this jug to Faenza, but the squat globular form was also common in Lazio and at Rome in the sixteenth century
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue and orange)
Base
Diameter 7.3 cm
Body
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: circular with blueborder
Inscription present: rectangular
Accession number: C.164-1991
Primary reference Number: 72375
Packing number: EURCER 437
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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