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Maker/s

Unknown (pottery)

Category

tin-glazed earthenware
maiolica

Name

two-handled cup

School/Style

maiolica arcaica

Description

Medieval, maiolica two-handled cup painted in green and brown with, on the inside, a long-tailed bird.

Pale buff earthenware, the exterior covered with yellowish-brown lead-glaze which appears opaque; interior tin-glazed ivory. Painted in copper-green and manganese-brown. Shape 21. Shallow bowl with carinated sides, standing on a narrow, solid foot; two small loop handles, each made from a roll of clay. Inside, within two concentric manganese circles, a long-tailed bird struts to the right, holding in its beak a cross-hatched, trefoil-shaped leaf on a stalk. Above, there is a similarly shaped leaf on a coiling stem, and, on the ground between the bird's feet, a serrated, trowel-shaped leaf. Outside, there is a green horizontal band.

Production Place

Orvieto (pottery) (place)

Umbria (pottery) (region)

Italy (pottery) (country)

Technique Description

pale buff earthenware, the exterior covered with yellowish-brown lead-glaze which appears opaque, interior tin-glazed ivory: painted in copper-green and manganese-brown.

Dimensions

height: (whole): 4.5 cm
width: (whole): 15.8 cm

Period

13th Century
14th Century
Medieval

Date

circa 1250 to 1350

Provenance

bequeathed: Harris, F. Leverton, The Right Hon. 1927 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)

Unknown.

F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926.

Inscriptions/Marks

1. 
   Position: on the outside
   Method: in black
   Content: 179
   

Documentation

1. Borenius, Tancred (1931) The Leverton Harris Collection, London: Privately printed
   [comments: Publ. pl. XIV]
2. Poole, Julia E. (1995) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: pp. 51-52]
   [comments: Publ. pp. 51-2, no. 78]
3. Satolli, Alberto (1997) Le Vecchie Collezioni di Ceramica Orvietana Medievale, Rome: Edizioni Kappa [page: p. 14]
   Source title: Vascellari: Rivista di storia della tradizione ceramica (1997)
   [comments: Publ. p.14, no.55]

Other Notes

Accession Number

C.96-1927 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 47322; Input Date: 2002-05-08 / Last Edit: 2010-01-19)