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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.]
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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: 2009-05-01) |
