Production: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Fragment of a one or two-handled cup. Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall and painted in blue and orange. Approximately half of a cup with narrow disk base and carinated sides with a D-shaped piece and a triangular piece missing from the rim and side. On one side are the stumps of a handle. In the centre is a wheel-like motif surrounded by part of concentric circles: two blue, one orange, four blue, one orange, and one blue. On the exterior of the rim there are two half fan-shaped palmettes in bue. The glaze on the exterior is stained with brown and has accretions of sand or earth.
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.'
Diameter: 10.1 cm
Height: 5.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
15th Century#
Renaissance
Circa
1450
CE
-
1500
CE
The shape of this cup is similar to the late-medieval Orvieto cups decorated in copper-green and manganese-purple
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and orange)
Foot
Diameter 4.8 cm
Throwing
: Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall, and painted in blue and orange.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with blue printed border
Accession number: C.82-1904
Primary reference Number: 81106
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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