Production: Unidentified Deruta pottery (Probably)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front. Painted in green, brownish-orange and black. Three sided, fragment of a panel or holy-water stoup, moulded in relief with the upper part of the body of Christ, lacking the head and lower arms. The Cross is green. Christ's body is outlined in black and shaded in brownish-orange.
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.' Bosanquet visited Orvieto in late July 1904.
Given by R.C. Bosanquet
Depth: 1.6 cm
Height: 6.3 cm
Width: 5.3 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
17th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in green, brownish-orange and black)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Moulding in relief : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front. Painted in green, brownish-orange and black.
Inscription present: rectangular whitge paper stick-on label with blue printed border
Accession number: C.91-1904
Primary reference Number: 81116
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Fragment" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81116 Accessed: 2023-02-01 20:32:19
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University of Cambridge}}
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