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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 black and copper-green with S hooks and lines.

Pale buff earthenware; the interior, lower part of the exterior and part of the base lead-glazed greenish-brown; the rest tin-glazed beige. Painted in black and copper-green. Shape 8. Squat ovoid body with disk base, cylindrical neck, applied folded spout and strap handle. The spout and handle are flanked by three vertical black lines forming side panels, each crossed by a row of reversed black S hooks between green lines edged in black. Below are two horizontal black bands; on the neck, three black and one green. On the spout there are horizontal lines of alternate colours, and, on the front, a green asterisk.

Production Notes

maiolica arcaica

Production Place

Orvieto (pottery) (place)

Umbria (pottery) (region)

Italy (pottery) (country)

Technique Description

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

Dimensions

height: (whole): 15.9 cm
diameter: (base): 8.0 cm
diameter: (body): 12.3 cm
width: (handle to spout): 17.2 cm

Period

13th Century
14th Century
Medieval

Date

circa 1250 to 1350

Provenance

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

Signor Avvocato Marcioni or Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli; Sotheby's, 16-17 February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, 16 February 1914, part of lot 41. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, 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
   Position:
   Method: printed in blue and inscribed in blue-black ink
   Content: 'WILLIAM RIDOUT COLLECTION' printed in blue 'O.52.' inscribed in blue-black ink
   Description: circular with blue border
   
2. label
   Position:
   Method: inscribed in pencil
   Content: 105/18
   Description: brown tie
   
3. 
   Position: on base
   Method: in pencil
   Content: 41/4
   

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.52.]
2. Poole, Julia E. (1995) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: p. 21]
   [comments: Publ. p. 21, no. 27]

Other Notes

Accession Number

C.27-1991 (Applied Arts)
(Reference Number: 47366; Input Date: 2002-05-08 / Last Edit: 2010-01-19)