Jug
1400-1450 (made)
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Bulbous body, wide neck pinched up in front to form a narrow lip. On the front is a shield charged with a fleur de lys flanked by sparys of budding foliage in a panel with cross-hatched ground.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed buff earthenware painted in purple-brown and green |
| Brief description | Body of a jug of tin-glazed buff earthenware, painted in green and purple-brown. Italy (probably Orvieto), 1400-1450. |
| Physical description | Bulbous body, wide neck pinched up in front to form a narrow lip. On the front is a shield charged with a fleur de lys flanked by sparys of budding foliage in a panel with cross-hatched ground. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sydney Vacher |
| Object history | Sydney Vacher gave this and 5 other pieces of 'Orvieto ware' to the museum in 1914. He had acquired these at the Marcioni and Lucatelli sale at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, (16-17 Feb.1914) from the collections formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto. This jug was recorded as having been dug up in Orvieto. It is likely that the jug was found in a similar context to other pieces of maiolica known to have been found in pozzi (wells) in Orvieto. Around the turn of the 20th century, a great deal of building work was going on in Orvieto including replacing the old medieval system of plumbing. Many pieces of so-called 'archaic maiolica' were brought up out of wells and thus from unstratified contexts. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977 |
| Other number | 21 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | C.117-1914 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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