Maker:
Unknown; pottery
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
bowl
Date:
circa 1300 — circa 1400
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
14th Century; Late Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in manganese and green with, on the inside, a trilobate leaf reserved in cross-hatching.
Earthenware, thickly potted, with shiny, pale grey tin-glaze on both sides; base partly unglazed. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 24. Circular with narrow rim, carinated sides and narrow foot.
Inside, within two concentric manganese circles, there is a trilobate leaf reserved in cross-hatching; on the rim, alternating groups of green and manganese radiating strokes; and on the outside, two green horizontal bands.
Production
Place:
Italy, Umbria, Orvieto
Production
Place (legacy):
Orvieto, pottery, place
Umbria, pottery, region
Italy, pottery, country
Technique(s):
throwing; body
tin-glazing; whole; base partly unglazed
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; whole; base partly unglazed
high-temperature colours; decoration; manganese and copper-green
Technique
Description:
earthenware, thickly potted, with shiny, pale grey tin-glaze on both sides; base partly unglazed; painted in manganese and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 6.2, cm
diameter, foot, 4.7, cm
diameter, whole, 13.1, 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
Notes(s):
This bowl is extremely heavy in comparison with the others of this form, which, with its comparatively unscathed greyish-white glaze, suggested that it might be an early twentieth-century reproduction. However, see the satisfactory result of thermoluminescence analysis of a sample from Cat. no. 127 (C.133-1991), which is also heavy and new looking. Although numbered `O./6.', its appearance corresponds with O.7 in the Ridout collection Catalogue.
Acquisition Credit:
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Inscription:
label; printed in blue and inscribed in ink; `WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' printed in blue, `O./6.' inscribed in ink; circular with blue edge
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. 23
Publ. p. 23, O.6 or O.7
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 60
Publ. p. 60, no. 93
Accession:
Object Number: C.127-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47972; input: 2002-05-20; modified: 2012-10-10)
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