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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Jug

late 13th century or early 14th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Orvieto (made)

Jug of buff-coloured earthenware with a elongated pear-shaped body on a high foot. The body of which is covered with a thin tin glaze. The foot and the interior is covered with a lead glaze. On one side of the jug there is a image of a long-necked bird, probably a crane, with its neck bent over down to its claws, neatly fitting into the shape of the body. The bird is painted in green and purple and the top of the jug has a band of interconnecting loops painted in green.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Earthenware
Object type
Jug
Materials and techniques
buff-coloured earthenware covered with a tin and lead glazes and painted in manganese and copper
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Glazing
Painting
Brief description
Jug of tin-glazed buff-coloured earthenware painted in green and brown with an image of a crane. Italian, probably Orvieto, late 13th to mid 14th century.
Physical description
Jug of buff-coloured earthenware with a elongated pear-shaped body on a high foot. The body of which is covered with a thin tin glaze. The foot and the interior is covered with a lead glaze. On one side of the jug there is a image of a long-necked bird, probably a crane, with its neck bent over down to its claws, neatly fitting into the shape of the body. The bird is painted in green and purple and the top of the jug has a band of interconnecting loops painted in green.
Gallery label
  • Ewer of enamelled earthenware (maiolica) painted in pale manganese purple and green with a long-necked bird. Found in a pozzo at Orvieto. Italian, 14th or early 15th century From the collections of Signor Avvocato Mancioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli Presented by Sydney Vacher, Tunbridge Wells(1914)
  • Ewer of enamelled earthenware (maiolica) painted in pale manganese-purple outline filled in with green. Restored. Found at Orvieto Italian, late 14th or early 15th century Formerly in the Marcioni-Lucatelli Collection(post 1914 and pre 1952)
  • Found in excavations at Orvieto. 14th or early 15th century Given by Mr Sydney Vacher(post 1914 and pre 1952)
  • Jug, earthenware. Dug up at Orvieto. Italian, first half of 14th century Given by Mr Sydney Vacher(1952)
  • 14. Jug with a pedestal-shaped foot Italy (Orvieto), 1275-1325 Earthenware painted with colours into the opaque tin-glaze This jug was found in a well in Orvieto. Museum no. C.326-1914. Given by Sydney Vacher.(2007)
  • Jug, probably Orvieto, 1270-1350
Credit line
Given by Sydney Vacher
Object history
The donor of this jug, Sydney Vacher, acquired it at the sale of the the collections of Avvocato Mancioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli, Cat. Sotheby's, London 16-17 Feb. 1914
Said to have been found in a well in Orvieto.
Production
Found in a pozzo at Orvieto
Bibliographic references
  • Sotheby's (1914) Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, London? [page: p. 32] 17th February 1914)
  • Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1940
  • Ceramiche Medioevali dell'Umbria
  • Julia E. Poole, Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1995
Other number
19 - Rackham (1940)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.326-1914

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Record createdJuly 23, 2007
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