IDENTIFIERS
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id:	81106
accession number:	C.82-1904

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 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.
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/81106





TECHNIQUES
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pale red earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall, and painted in blue and orange.
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1450 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1450
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	15th Century#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 10.1

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 5.0