Maker:
Unknown; pottery; probably
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
relief
Other Name:
relief face
Date:
circa 1275 — circa 1350
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
13th Century; 14th Century; Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica relief with a face, painted in manganese.
Cream earthenware, moulded in relief with a face; the reverse solid and uneven. Tin-glazed off-white on the front and painted in manganese.
Production
Place:
Italy, Umbria, Orvieto, probably Orvieto
Production
Place (legacy):
Orvieto, pottery, place
Umbria, pottery, region
Italy, pottery, country
Technique(s):
moulding in relief; whole
tin-glazing; front
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; front
high-temperature colour; decoration; manganese
Technique
Description:
cream earthenware, moulded in relief with a face; the reverse solid and uneven; tin-glazed off-white on the front and painted in manganese.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 4.7, cm
width, whole, 3.2, cm
depth, whole, 1.8, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
Probably purchased from Kerin, London, 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
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 79
Publ. p. 79, no. 137
Accession:
Object Number: C.73-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47696; input: 2002-05-13; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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