Maker:
Unknown; pottery
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
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 manganese and green with, on the inside, a trefoil leaf.
Two-handled cup. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale grey overall. Painted in dark manganese (almost black) and copper-green.
Shape 21. Circular with carinated sides, narrow foot and two loop handles of oval section.
Inside, within two manganese concentric circles, there is a trefoil leaf surrounded by cross-hatching; on the outside, oblique manganese strokes with a manganese band above and a green and a manganese below. On one handle there is a green spot.
Production
Place:
Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
Production
Place (legacy):
Orvieto, pottery, place
Umbria, pottery, region
Italy, pottery, country
Technique(s):
throwing; body
tin-glazing; whole
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; whole
high-temperature colours; decoration; dark manganese and copper-green
Technique
Description:
earthenware, tin-glazed pale grey overall; painted in dark manganese (almost black) and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 5.0, cm
diameter, foot, 3.4, cm
width, whole, 14.4, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
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:
A cup with a similar trefoil leaf, but with a lobed central foil, is in the Fondazione Horne, Florence; another was formerly in the Imbert collection.
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. pp. 49-50
Publ. pp. 49-50, no. 73
Imbert, Alessandro. 1909. Ceramiche orvietane dei secoli XIII e XIV.Rome:
Cf. pl. II, fig. 11.
Milan, Castello Sforzesco. Satolli, Alberto. 1983. La ceramica orvietana del medioevo I.Florence: Castello Sforzescop. p.81
Cf. p.81, no. 91.
Accession:
Object Number: C.96-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47821; input: 2002-05-16; modified: 2012-10-10)
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