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Maker:
Unknown; pottery
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
two-handled cup
Other Name:
fragment of a two-handled cup
Date:
circa 1250 — 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 leaf.
Earthenware. Tin-glazed pale beige on both sides; base unglazed. Painted in dark manganese (almost black) and copper-green.
Shape 21. Approximately a third of a bowl with carinated sides, narrow foot and one handle of oval section.
Inside, within part of two manganese circles, there is a leaf decorated with two lozenges, surrounded by hatching; on the rim a green band, and, on the outside, a green band and a green spot on the handle.
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 unglazed
painting; decoration
Material(s):
earthenware; whole
tin-glaze; whole; base unglazed
high-temperature colours; decoration; dark manganese and copper-green
Technique
Description:
earthenware: tin-glazed pale beige on both sides, base unglazed; painted in dark manganese (almost black) and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 4.6, cm
diameter, foot, 4.0, cm
width, edge of foot-handle, 6.1, 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
Documentation:
Poole, Julia E.. 1995. Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. p. 50
Publ. p. 50, no. 75
Accession:
Object Number: C.102-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47827; input: 2002-05-17; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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