IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72409 accession number: C.166-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, thrown. The interior is lead-glazed pale brownish-yellow, the exterior is tin-glazed cream and the base is unglazed. Painted in dark blue and dark yellow. Ovoid with disk base, cylindrical neck expanding towards the carinated rim, which is pinched at the front to form a spout, and broad strap handle. The front is decorated with a yellow wavy cross, with blue fan-shaped palmettes with dark yellow centres between the arms, enclosed by a circular blue `ladder' between yellow bands, from which blue stylised foliage and orange rays extend towards the back. object type: Renaissance maiolica jug, painted in blue and yellow with, on the front, a wavy cross with palmettes between the arms enclosed in a 'ladder' frame. title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably part of lot 33; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72409 CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century, second half# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge La ceramica orvietana nel Quattrocento & nel Cinquecento --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_166_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_166_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_166_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_166_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_166_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_166_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_166_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_166_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels