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Maker: Unknown (Perhaps)
Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue and orange-yellow.
Shape 45. Hemi-sperical with two loop handles, standing on a narrow foot.
In the middle, within a blue circle, is a fan-shaped flower with an orange-yellow stamen, and a tendril on each side of its stalk. The sides are decorated with concentric circles: wide blue, two narrow blue, one wide orange-yellow, two narrow blue and one wide blue. On the exterior of the rim, there are eight half-palmettes.
History note: Unknown
F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Height: 6.7 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon.
15th Century#
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1450
CE
-
1510
CE
The colouring of this bowl is brighter than the other bowls of this type in the museum's collection. There is no evidence that it was found in Orvieto or elsewhere in Umbria, and may therefore have been made in another area, such as Emilia-Romagna .
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue and orange-yellow)
Base
Diameter 4.5 cm
Bowl
except base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.95-1927
Primary reference Number: 76434
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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