IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81099 accession number: C.76-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 March 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Fragment of a plate or bowl. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in blue, green, and pale orange. Irregularly-shaped oblong fragment, slightly concave. On the front are green and yellow elliptical motifs (leaves?) placed tip to tip to form a zig-zag within a contour with dark blue in the spaces. On either side there are blue 'ladder' borders, and, at the top, a broad blue band. On the back there are concentric blue and orange circles. title: fragment NOTES ----- type: history note value: One of a group of sherds accompanied by a label stating that they were 'Mostly bought at Orvieto; some pieces, marked P on the back, from Perugia. The Orvieto pieces, with a few exceptions, were found in excavating foundations for houses near Cathedral.' LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by R.C. Bosanquet STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81099 TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. and painted in blue, green, and orange. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Deruta pottery maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 6.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 3.7