Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, pottery, probably, Italy, Umbria, Orvieto, probably Orvieto
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
plate
Date:
circa 1350 — 1425
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
14th Century; early 15th Century
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica plate, painted in manganese and green with, in the well, a coiling stalk with pointed leaves.
Earthenware, the front tin-glazed pale grey, the reverse lead-glazed greenish-yellow. Some of the lead-glaze has run over onto the right side of the rim. Painted in dark manganese and green.
Shape 37, with wider and flatter rim.
In the well, there is a coiling stalk with pointed leaves and small leaves in the spaces; on the rim, radiating strokes in groups of alternate colours.
Technique(s):
tin-glazing; front
lead-glazing; reverse
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; front
lead-glaze; reverse
Technique
Description:
earthenware; the front tin-glazed pale grey, the reverse lead-glazed greenish-yellow, some of the lead-glaze has run over onto the right side of the rim; painted in dark manganese and green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 3.7, cm
diameter, base, 6.0, cm
diameter, whole, 17.0, 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
Acquisition Credit:
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Inscription:
label; inscribed in indelible pencil; 3M/u; circular with serrated edge
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 74
Publ. p. 74, no. 126
Accession:
Object Number: C.132-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 71813; input: 2002-09-26; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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