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Maker/s

Unknown (pottery)

Collection

H.S. Reitlinger

Category

tin-glazed earthenware
maiolica

Name

jug

Description

Late Medieval maiolica jug, painted in manganese and green with leaves and lines.

Cream earthenware, the interior, lower part of the exterior and part of the base lead-glazed yellowish-brown; the rest tin-glazed pale beige. Painted in manganese and copper-green. Shape 8. Squat bulbous body with disk base, cylindrical neck, applied folded spout and strap handle. The spout and handle are flanked by three vertical manganese lines forming side panels, each containing a leaf on a curved stalk. Under the spout is a short green line between two wavy manganese lines. Below are two manganese horizontal bands, and on the neck, three. The spout and handle are horizontally striped in alternate colours.

Production Notes

maiolica arcaica

Production Place

Orvieto (pottery) (place)

Umbria (pottery) (region)

Italy (pottery) (country)

Technique Description

cream earthenware, the interior, lower part of the exterior and part of the base lead-glazed yellowish-brown, the rest tin-glazed pale beige; painted in manganese and copper-green.

Dimensions

height: (whole): 11.9 cm
diameter: (base): 7.0 cm
diameter: (body): 9.6 cm
width: (handle to spout): 13.8 cm

Period

13th Century
14th Century
Medieval

Date

circa 1250 to 1350

Provenance

bequeathed: Reitlinger, Henry Scipio 1950 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)

William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware.part of lot 105; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950

Inscriptions/Marks

1. label
   Method: printed in blue and inscribed in blue-black ink
   Content: 'WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' printed in blue 'O.47.' inscribed in blue-black ink
   Description: circular with blue border
   
2. label
   Method: inscribed in pencil
   Content: 105/18
   Description: brown tie
   

Documentation

1. Honey, William Bowyer (1934) A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto, London [page: p. 14]
   [comments: Publ. p. 14, O.47]
2. Poole, Julia E. (1995) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: p. 20]
   [comments: Publ. p. 20, no. 26]

Other Notes

Accession Number

C.26-1991 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 47365; Input Date: 2002-05-08 / Last Edit: 2010-01-19)