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Fragment: C.88-1904

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Deruta pottery (Probably)
Production: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Possibly)

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Categories

Description

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.

Notes

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.'

Legal notes

Given by R.C. Bosanquet

Measurements and weight

Depth: 1.5 cm
Length: 8.4 cm
Width: 6.4 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Deruta ⪼ Umbria ⪼ Italy
  • Orvieto ⪼ Umbria ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.

Dating

16th Century
Renaissance
Circa 1500 CE - 1550 CE

School or Style

Renaissance

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and a little yellow)
Back composed of lead-glaze
Front composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label with blue border

  • Text: H 9
  • Location: On back
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in red ink
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.88-1904
Primary reference Number: 81113
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 21 March 2017 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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