Production:
Unidentified Orvieto pottery
(Probably)
Production:
Unidentified Lazio pottery
(Perhaps)
Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed on the inside, and probably slip-coated and lead-glazed brownish-yellow on the outside. Painted in blue and green. Part of the disk base and side which slopes outwards and then inwards towards the rim. In the centre is a many-petalled flower head surrounded by concentric circles: three blue, one green, one blue, a row of oblique blue strokes, one blue, one blue and one wider blue.
History note: The fragment was included in a group with a label 'Mostly bought at Orvieto; some pieces, marked P on the back, from Perugia. The Orvieto pieces, with a few exceptions, were found in excavating foundations for houses near Cathedral.' Richard Carr Bosanquet, MA.
Given by R.C. Bosanquet
Diameter: 10.0 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1904) by Bosanquet, R. C.
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1550
CE
Orvieto or Lazio
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and green)
Outside
composed of
lead-glaze
Inside
composed of
tin-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular with blue border
Accession number: C.95-1904
Primary reference Number: 81119
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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