Production:
Unidentified Deruta pottery
(Probably)
Production:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Possibly)
Fragment of a dish rim. Pale red earthenware, thickly potted, lead-glazed yellowish-brown on the back, and tin-glazed greyish-white on the front. Painted in blue and a little yellow.
Five-sided with a small part of the top of the well, and part of the rim with a small upturned length of its outer edge.
On the rim there is a broad blue band between two narrow blue bands, and part of a border of scrolling stylised with a yellow trefoil-shaped flower or leaf, and a narrow blue band and a broad blue band round the edge.
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.'
Given by R.C. Bosanquet
Depth: 1.5 cm
Length: 8.4 cm
Width: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1550
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and a little yellow)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label with blue border
Accession number: C.88-1904
Primary reference Number: 81113
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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