Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, pottery, Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
bowl
Date:
circa 1250 — circa 1375
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
13th Century; 14th Century; Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in black and green with, on the inside, a six-petalled rosette.
Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in black and copper-green.
Shape 23. Circular with carinated sides, standing on a narrow solid foot.
Inside, there is a six-petalled rosette; on the outside, a green wavy line.
Technique(s):
throwing; body
tin-glazing; whole; base unglazed
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; whole; base unglazed
high-temperature colours; decoration; black and copper-green
Technique
Description:
earthenware: tin-glazed off-white on both sides, base unglazed; painted in black and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 4.6, cm
diameter, foot, 4.6, cm
diameter, whole, 9.7, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, probably part of lot 108; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Associated
Person(s):
Ridout, William; previous owner
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio; previous owner
Acquisition Credit:
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Inscription:
label; printed in blue and inscribed in blue-black ink; 'WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' printed in blue, 'O/18.' in blue-black ink; circular with blue border
Documentation:
Honey, William Bowyer. Ridout, F.U.. 1934. A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto.London: p. p. 13
Publ. p. 13, O.18.
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 57
Publ. p. 57, no. 87
Accession:
Object Number: C.110-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47835; input: 2002-05-17; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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