IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72426
accession number:	C.167-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72426





CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1480 - 1520
creation date earliest:	1480
creation date latest:	1520
culture:	15th Century, Late
culture:	16th Century, Early#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 13.4



CITATIONS
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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
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