IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72426 accession number: C.167-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, thrown. The exterior is tin-glazed; the interior and base are unglazed. Painted in blue and yellow. Bulbous ovoid body with cylindrical neck, flaring towards the carinated rim, which is pinched at the front to form a spout; broad strap handle with a longitudinal depression, curving upwards on either side of a thumb print at the lower end. On the front is a sunburst comprising a yellow striped centre, five blue rays surrounded by a yellow circle between two blue, and three more rays on each side. The handle is flanked by slanting blue strokes between two sets of three blue vertical lines. Below are two horizontal bands, and on the neck, criss-crosses between pairs of horizontal bands. object type: Renaissance maiolica jug, painted in blue and yellow with, on the front, a sunburst surrounded by a circle, and rays and strokes on the sides. 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, 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/72426 CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1480 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1480 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 15th Century, Late culture: 16th Century, Early# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.4 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_167_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_167_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_167_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_167_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_167_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_167_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_167_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_167_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels