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Potter: Mancini Workshop (Possibly)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse has brown speckles and is tinged with green in two areas. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange.
Shape approximately 71. Circular with a narrow rim, wide shallow well and flat centre surrounded by a circular rib. The basin has warped.
In the middle is a beribboned shield of testa di cavallo form, charged with the arms of Colonna, or a column argent (shown as brownish-orange with a blue and white column), flanked by the letters `.VI' and `VA.'. The blue rib is surrounded by a border of blue and yellow half-flowers. The sides are decorated with formal plants and foliate scrolls bearing stylised fruits and flowers. On the rim is a border of bulbs and sprays of stylised flowers on a blue ground. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue with an `M' crossed, and round the rim are interlacing blue petals.
History note: Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd, London
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Diameter: 32.3 cm
Height: 3.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-10-18) by Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd.
16th Century, Mid
Circa
1530
CE
-
1560
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange)
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse has brown speckles and is tinged with green in two areas. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.38-1931
Primary reference Number: 74733
Glaisher Additions number: Gl. Add.29-1931
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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