IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80896 accession number: C.22-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 18 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and with slightly lustrous yellow. Section of a bowl with a deep well and broad rim, of approximately shape 60. Part of a central medallion containing leaves and semi-circular motifs, surrounded by three bands and a zone of scales with a band above. On the rim, pointed yellow rays with blue shaded edges alternate with buds on stems, bordered by a yellow band between two blue, and a yellow band. On the back there are two spaced yellow concentric circles. title: fragment NOTES ----- type: history note value: According to a label accompanying a group of fragments including this one given by R.C. Bosanquet they were 'Mostly bought at Orvieto; some pieces (marked P at back) from Perugia. The Orvieto pieces, with a few exceptions were found in excavating foundations for houses near the Cathedral.' Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935), the Director of the British School of Athens, passed through Orvieto with his wife, Ellen Sophia (née Hodgkin) in July 1904, signing the visitors book in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo on 26th, and then went on to Perugia, where he purchased some small Etruscan bronzes which he gave to the Fitzwilliam at the same time. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Professor R.C. Bosanquet STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80896 TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and with slightly lustrous yellow. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica category: lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Deruta pottery maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 8.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.5 CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge La ceramica orvietana nel Quattrocento & nel Cinquecento Orvieto underground. Scheda 38, le ceramiche ritrovate: un altra fornace in via della Cava ---