Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, pottery, probably, Italy, Umbria, Orvieto, probably Orvieto
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
handle
Other Name:
handle from a jug
Date:
circa 1275 — 1350
probably c.1275-1350
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
13th Century; 14th Century; Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica handle from a jug, painted in manganese and green with horizontal stripes.
Yellowish-cream earthenware. Of loop form with a longtitudinal section of neck. The interior of the neck is lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the handle tin-glazed off-white. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
The outside is striped horizontally in alternate colours.
Technique(s):
throwing; body
lead-glazing; interior of neck
tin-glazing; handle
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
lead-glaze; interior of neck
tin-glaze; handle
high-temperature colours; decoration; manganese and copper-green
Technique
Description:
yellowish-cream earthenware: the interior of the neck is lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the handle tin-glazed off-white; painted in manganese and copper-green.
Dimension:
height, whole, 8.4, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
Signor Avvocato Marcioni or Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli; Sotheby's, 16-17 February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, lot 59 & pl. IV. Purchased from Kerin, London, on 9 December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Associated
Person:
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio; previous owner
Notes:
In 1914 this handle was attached to jug C.60-1991.
Acquisition Credit:
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 37
Publ. p. 37, no. 53B
Satolli, Alberto. Le vecchie collezioni di ceramica orvietana medievale.
Source Title: Vasellari, Rivista di storia della tradizione ceramica(1997)
p. p.34
Publ. p.34, no. 59
Related Object(s):
Accession:
Object Number: C.60B-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47571; input: 2002-05-10; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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