Production: Unidentified Orvieto pottery (Probably)
Buff earthenware with remnants of yellowish-brown lead-glazed on the exterior, and tin-glazed on the interior and the front. Painted in blue and yellow. Fragment of about three-quarters of the disk-base, and a little of the sides of a dish or bowl. Decorated with part of the central medallion containing a yellow trellis with T-shaped blue splodges in the spaces, surrounded by two concentric blue circles, a yellow circle with blue oblique strokes over it, and two blue circles.
History note: According to a label accompanying a group of fragments including this one, given by R.C. Bosanquet, they were 'Mostly bought at Orvietop; 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
Height: 2.2 cm
Length: 10.4 cm
Width: 8.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
15th Century, Late
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1480
CE
-
1520
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and yellow)
Exterior
composed of
lead-glaze
Interior, Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label with blue printed border
Accession number: C.94-1904
Primary reference Number: 81118
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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