Production: Unidentified Montelupo potter
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange and very dark manganese-brown.
Four-sided concave fragment of a dish with a small area of the everted edge. A foot and trousered leg, and part of another leg, standing on greensward. On the reverse, there are parts of three manganese-brown concentric bands.
History note: Acquired in northern Italy, probably Bologna, between 1908-1910 by Richard Sneade Brown (1851-1917), of Heathcote, Worthing.
Given by R.S. Brown
Length: 10.4 cm
Width: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1910-05-30) by Brown, Richard Sneade
16th Century, Late
17th Century#
Circa
1575
CE
-
1700
CE
This is a fragment of a typical Montelupo dish with a boldly painted male figure on the front, and concentric rings on the back
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, green, yellow, orange and very dark manganese-brown)
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides., and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange and very dark manganese-brown.
Inscription present: small rectangular label with octagonal blue border
Inscription present: large rectangular label with octagonal blue border
Accession number: C.7-1910
Primary reference Number: 81153
Old object number: 161-1910 (part of group)
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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