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Maker(s) &
Production:
Unknown, pottery, Italy, Umbria, Orvieto, probably Orvieto
Collection:
H.S. Reitlinger
Category(s):
tin-glazed earthenware; maiolica
Name:
bowl
Date:
circa 1300 — 1400
probably 14th century
School/Style:
maiolica arcaica
Period(s):
14th Century; Medieval
Description(s):
Late Medieval maiolica bowl, painted in manganese and green with, on the inside, an eight-pointed star.
Cream earthenware, tin-glazed pale pinkish-grey on both sides; the unglazed base has a little glaze on one side. Painted in dark manganese and copper-green.
Shape 32. Circular with narrow flat rim, curved sides and narrow base.
Inside, within two concentric manganese circles, there is an eight-pointed star surrounded by cross-hatching; on the rim, a repeating border comprising three radiating strokes, a circle, three strokes, and a triangle.
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:
cream earthenware, tin-glazed pale pinkish-grey on both sides, the unglazed base has a little glaze on one side; painted in dark manganese and copper-green.
Dimension(s):
height, whole, 4.4, cm
diameter, base, 5.4, cm
diameter, whole, 12.3, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1950; Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Provenance:
Purportedly excavated in Orvieto. 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. 70
Publ. p. 70, no. 116
Milan, Castello Sforzesco. Satolli, Alberto. 1983. La ceramica orvietana del medioevo I.Florence: Castello Sforzescop. p. 91
Cf. A comparable motif occurs on a bowl in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto, p. 91, no. 123.
Accession:
Object Number: C.113-1991
(Applied Arts)
(record id: 47838; input: 2002-05-17; modified: 2012-10-10)
Permanent
Identifier:
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