IDENTIFIERS
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id:	81104
accession number:	C.81-1904

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 21 March 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fragment of a jug. Pale yellowish-buff earthenware, lead-glazed yellowish-brown on the inside, and tin-glazed on the exterior. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange. Irregular-shaped fragment. A part of the same jug as the two fragments labelled C.99-1904. (Description for C.81-1904 and C.99-1904). On the side are two sets of three vertical lines flanking oblique blue strokes. Above is a horizontal yellow line between two blue, and a blue zig-zag with orange trefoils in the spaces, and two more blue horizontal lines. The glaze has crazed.
title:	fragment

NOTES
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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.'


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81104





TECHNIQUES
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pale yellowish-buff earthenware, lead-glazed yellowish-brown on the inside, tin-glazed on the exterior and painted in blue, yellow, and orange.
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1480 - 1520
creation date earliest:	1480
creation date latest:	1520
culture:	15th Century, Late
culture:	16th Century, Early#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.0



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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