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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1460 - 1500; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, two-handled jar, throwing, Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; the interior lead-glazed yellowish-brown; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, and manganese.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, Frederick Leverton, 1926, F. Leverton Harris Bequest [C.108-1927]
Description: Two-handled jar. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; the interior lead-glazed yellowish-brown; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, and manganese.
Albarello with sloping shoulders, cylindrical neck, and two wide strap handles, each with a thumb print at its base.
The back and front are decorated with rectangular panels bordered by interlaced reversed Ss between sets of three vertical lines. Both panels contain a Gothic 'a' with incised decoration on the upright strokes, enclosed by a contour line and flanked by pairs of serrated leaves surrounded by dots. Above and below there are two horizontal blue bands. Round the lower part and neck are slanting blue lines; on the shoulder, San Bernardino rays; and on the handles, alternating pairs of blue and green horizontal lines. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | tin-glazed earthenware two-handled jar Unknown | Temporal: | name=15th century; start=1460; end=1500 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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