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Potter: Unidentified Pesaro potter
Maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in blue and orange, with bands, intersecting wavy lines forming circles containing flowers, stems, and trefoils.
Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue and a little orange. Tall waisted albarello.
Round the waist, between dark blue, orange, and reserved white horizontal bands of different widths, there is a wide horizontal zone with a dotted background decorated with two intersecting wavy lines forming five circles, each containing a flower with an orange centre and four stems bearing a trefoil leaf and tendrils. Between the circles there are vertical stems with a trefoil and tendrils at each end. Above and below there are bands of simpler patterns of the same type. At the top and bottom of the main field there are wide blue and narrow reserved white bands and, on the shoulder, blue dabs and orange and blue bands.
History note: Copper & Adams, London
Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund
Diameter: 14.3 cm
Height: 32.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1946) by Copper & Adams
15th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1480
CE
-
1500
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue and a little orange)
Rim
Diameter 10.8 cm
Base
Diameter 12.3 cm
Throwing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue and a little orange.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: EC.27-1946
Primary reference Number: 79518
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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