Production: Unknown (Probably)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in blue, green, yellow, brown and black. Three-sided, convex fragment of the front of a jug (or jar) with throwing rings on the interior. A beribboned cartouche or shield charged with the Agnus Dei, standing on greensward lacking the upper part of the cartouche, enclosed by part of a circular or oval wreath of paired blue leaves. Below there is a narrow blue line and a broad area of blue.
History note: Found in Perugia
Height: 8.0 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
16th century
Circa
1500
CE
-
1600
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, green, yellow, brown and black)
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in blue, green, yellow, brown and black
Inscription present: rectangular with blue border
Accession number: C.78-1904
Primary reference Number: 81101
Old object number: G 14
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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