Production: Unidentified Deruta pottery (Possibly)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in yellowish-green and brownish-orange. Approximately lozenge-shaped and convex fragment of the side of a bowl (probably) or hollow vessel. On the outside, plants, with a horizontal band above with oblique strokes over it. The glaze on the inside has crazed.
History note: 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.'
Given by R.c. Bosanquet
Length: 8.8 cm
Width: 7.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
16th Century
17th Century#
Circa
1500
CE
-
1700
CE
The decoration of this fragment is similar to C.68-1904, a fragment of a bowl
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( yellowish-green and orange)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in yellowish-green and brownish-orange
Inscription present: rectangular with blue border
Accession number: C.69-1904
Primary reference Number: 80950
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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