Potter: Unknown
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; the interior lead-glazed yellowish-brown; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, and manganese. Albarello with sloping shoulders, cylindrical neck, and two wide strap handles, each with a thumb print at its base.
The back and front are decorated with rectangular panels bordered by interlaced reversed Ss between sets of three vertical lines. Both panels contain a Gothic 'a' with incised decoration on the upright strokes, enclosed by a contour line and flanked by pairs of serrated leaves surrounded by dots. Above and below there are two horizontal blue bands. Round the lower part and neck are slanting blue lines; on the shoulder, San Bernardino rays; and on the handles, alternating pairs of blue and green horizontal lines.
History note: C. & E. Canessa, Paris, from whom purchased in 1920 by F. Leverton Harris (1864-1926), by whom bequeathed
F. Leverton Harris Bequest
Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 26.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1927) by Harris, Frederick Leverton
15th Century#
16th Century
Circa
1460
CE
-
1500
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, green, and manganese)
Interior
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
tin-glaze
Rim
Diameter 10.8 cm
Base
Diameter 12.0 cm
Body
Accession number: C.108-1927
Primary reference Number: 78769
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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