IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81137 accession number: C.113-1904 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 March 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Three joined fragments of the upper part of a jug. Pale buff earthenware, lead-glazed brown on the interior and tin-glazed pale grey on the exterior; the glaze running over onto the inside of the neck. Painted in dark blue. Trilobate mouth, upper part of the sides and back with upper end of the handle, the front missing from a short distance below the lip. The front is decorated with the upper part of a ladder frame with on each side, projecting tufts and stylised flowers on stalks. title: fragments NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by R.C. Bosanquet STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81137 CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Orvieto pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.0 CITATIONS -------- La ceramica medievale orvietana: la pista americana ed alcune precisazioni ---