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, with relief heads and a pine-cone, painted in manganese and green with vegetal motifs and rhomboids.
Earthenware. The lower part and interior are lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest is tin-glazed. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Bulbous body with disk base and a flattened zone round the widest part, cylindrical neck, and wide strap handle with a longitudinal ridge.
The flattened zone is decorated with oblique strokes, interrupted by a relief head, a pine-cone, and the remains of another head, with two manganese bands below and one above. The shoulders and neck are decorated with panels containing vegetal motifs and rhomboids reserved in cross-hatching. On the body, the handle is flanked by S hooks between two groups of three vertical lines, and, on the neck, by trelliswork.
Production
Place:
Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
Production
Place (legacy):
Orvieto, pottery, place
Umbria, pottery, region
Italy, pottery, country
Technique(s):
throwing; body
lead-glazing; lower part, interior
tin-glazing; exterior
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
lead-glaze; lower part, interior
tin-glaze; exterior
high-temperature colours; decoration; manganese and copper-green
Technique
Description:
earthenware; the lower part and interior are lead-glazed yellowish-brown, the rest is tin-glazed; painted in manganese and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 26.1, cm
diameter, base, 12.5, cm
diameter, body, 19.7, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
Purportedly excavated in Orvieto. 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
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 47
Publ. p. 47, no. 68
Accession:
Object Number: C.74-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47701; input: 2002-05-13; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
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