Maker:
Unknown; pottery
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
jug
Date:
circa 1275 — 1375
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
13th Century; 14th Century; Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with a relief head and pine-cones.
Pale cream earthenware. The interior is lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the exterior is tin-glazed greyish-white, and the lower edge and base are unglazed. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 19. Squat piriform body with disk base, short neck, trilobate mouth and loop handle of D section.
The front is decorated with a relief head flanked by cross-hatched leaves and relief pine-cones. On each side of the handle there are oblique strokes between two sets of three vertical lines. Below are two horizontal manganese bands; on the neck, a green chain between pairs of manganese bands; and on the handle, seven horizontal stripes of alternate colours.
Production
Place:
Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
Production
Place (legacy):
Orvieto, pottery, place
Umbria, pottery, region
Italy, pottery, country
Technique(s):
throwing; body
lead-glazing; interior
tin-glazing; exterior
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
lead-glaze; interior
tin-glaze; exterior
high-temperature colours; decoration; manganese and copper-green
Technique
Description:
pale cream earthenware; the interior is lead-glazed brownish-yellow, the exterior is tin-glazed greyish-white, and the lower edge and base are unglazed; painted in manganese and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 16.2, cm
diameter, base, 8.9, cm
diameter, body, 13.3, cm
diameter, relief face - handle, 13.5, 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 79C (1). 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
Acquisition Credit:
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Inscription:
inscription; on base; in pencil; 79/2
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 45
Publ. p. 45, no. 65
Accession:
Object Number: C.69-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47690; input: 2002-05-13; modified: 2012-10-10)
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