Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, pottery, Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
two-handled cup
Other Name:
part of a two-handled cup
Date:
circa 1250 — circa 1350
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
13th Century; 14th Century; Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica two-handled cup, painted in black and green with, on the inside, a shield.
Earthenware. Tin-glazed beige overall. Painted in black and copper-green.
Approximately Shape 21. One third of a cup with carinated sides, narrow foot and one strap handle with a longtitudinal ridge; the other restored.
Inside, there is a medallion with a green ground containing a shield charged with vair, surrounded by a cross-hatched border interrupted by leaf-shaped reserves containing three green strokes. The rim is green, and, on the outside, there is a horizontal green band.
Technique(s):
throwing; body
tin-glazing; whole
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; whole; now beige in colour
high-temperature colours; decoration; black and copper-green
Technique
Description:
earthenware: tin-glazed beige overall; painted in black and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 4.6, cm
diameter, foot, 4.0, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
Probably 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:
The pencilled inscription does not refer to lot 114 in the Marcioni-Lucatelli sale.
Acquisition Credit:
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Inscription:
inscription; on the side; in pencil; 114/3
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 54
Publ. p. 54, no. 83
Accession:
Object Number: C.95-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47820; input: 2002-05-16; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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