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Maker/s | Unknown (pottery)
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Category |
tin-glazed earthenware
maiolica
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Name |
bowl
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School/Style |
maiolica arcaica |
Description | Medieval, maiolica bowl, painted in manganese and green with a woman between rampant antelopes and branches. Pale buff earthenware, the interior tin-glazed off-white, the exterior and top of the rim lead-glazed honey-brown. Painted in manganese and copper-green.
Shape 22. Circular with carinated sides, standing on a low, solid foot; the sides curve upwards and outwards to the widest point and then rise vertically for c. 3.5 cm, to the rim which is flat on top.
In the middle, a woman stands between rampant antelopes and branches bearing heart-shaped leaves reserved in cross-hatching. She wears a crown and a long gown, and holds a long-necked ewer in her right hand, and a beaker in her raised left hand. The sides are encircled by a green chain with a manganese band above and below. The top of the rim is decorated with oblique green lines. |
Production Place | Orvieto (pottery) (place) Umbria (pottery) (region) Italy (pottery) (country) |
Technique Description | pale buff earthenware, the interior tin-glazed off-white, the exterior and top of the rim lead-glazed honey-brown; painted in manganese and copper-green. |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 11.2
cm
diameter: (rim): 31.5
cm
diameter: (foot): 14.2
cm
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Period | 13th Century
14th Century
Medieval
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Date | circa 1275 to 1350 |
Provenance |
given:
de Pass, Alfred A. 1933 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Ercole Canessa. Alfred A. De Pass.
Given by Alfred A. De Pass
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Inscriptions/Marks | -
label
Method: inscribed in black ink
Content: An Orvieto deep dish or basin/for washing hands. 14"/decorated with a female/Saint supported by stags/in pale green and aubergine/Canessa & de Pass Colls
Description: rectangular with cut corners and printed royal blue border
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label
Method: inscribed
Content: This resembles to/Catalan faience at/Barcelona Museum/if not Orvieto it must be Spain
Description: rectangular with cut corners and printed royal blue border
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Documentation | - Rackham, Bernard The De Pass pottery in the Fitzwilliam Museum, [page: p. 245]
Source title: Connoisseur (April 1934)
[comments: Publ. p. 245, fig. 1] - Haggar, Reginald (1960) The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain, London: André Deutsch [page: p. 176]
[comments: Publ. colour pl. 9, facing p. 176] - Whitehouse, David The medieval glazed pottery of Lazio,
Source title: Papers of the British School at Rome (1967)
[comments: Publ. pl. XXIVA] - La Liguria e la ceramica medioevale nel mediterraneo,
Source title: Atti del V Convegno Internazionale della Ceramica (1972)
[comments: Publ. pl. III, fig. a] - Shafer, Thomas (1976) Pottery Decoration, London [page: p. 114]
[comments: Publ. p. 114] - Satolli, Alberto Le vecchie collezioni di ceramica orvietana medievale, [page: p. 3]
Source title: Vasellari, Rivista di storia della tradizione ceramica (1997)
[comments: Publ. p.3, no.5] - Poole, Julia E. (1995) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: pp. 55-6]
[comments: Publ. pp. 55-6, no. 85] - Satolli, Alberto (2006) Bere con Gusto, concorso per ceramisti orvietana, Orvieto: Comune di Orvieto [page: 20]
[comments: Publ. p. 20, as inspiration ofor a jug in the form of a woman by Stefania Portarena.] - Riccetti, Lucio (2010) 1909 Tra Collezionismo e Tutela, Connoisseur, antiquari e la ceramica medievale orvietana, Perugia: Regione Umbria
[comments: Publ. p. 87 with note 287, 288 with note 292, illustrated p. 89, pl. 20 right, from the Canessa sale in New York, 1919. Illustrated Catalogue of the Canessa Collection of rare and valuable objects of art, lot 216. The antelopes were wrongly described as unicorns. Footnote 287 gives the info Canessa, 1915, lot 115 and Illustrated catalogue, 1919, lot 216. E. Canessa, Catalogue Canessa’s Collection. Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, lot 115.]
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Other Notes | Thermoluminescence analysis of the Fitzwilliam's bowl by the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, (report dated 8 February 1994, sample 581m33) estimated that the sample was last fired between 550 and 850 years ago (1144-1444). |
Accession Number | C.130-1933 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 47343; Input Date: 2002-05-08 / Last Edit: 2011-04-26) |
