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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1470 - 1500; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, two-handled jar, tin-glazing, Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; traces of lead glaze on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, F. Leverton, 1926, F. Leverton Harris Bequest [C.91-1927]
Description: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; traces of lead glaze on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple.
Albarello with sloping shoulders, cylindrical neck, and two handles each formed of two rolls of clay pushed together and flattened.
On each side is a rectangular panel bordered by criss-crosses between pairs of vertical lines. One contains a label inscribed `DEO GRAcIAS' (Thanks to God), with, above and below, blue and yellow lines and two parti-coloured leaves on a stalk with dots in the background, The other has four stylised flowers on stems meeting in the centre, with diagonal tendrils between them, and a dotted background. Above and below are horizontal blue bands. Round the lower part there are criss-crosses; on the shoulder, parti-coloured leaves and buds on stalks; on the neck, smaller criss-crosses between two narrow and two wide horizontal blue bands. The handles are decorated with alternating pairs of blue and yellow horizontal stripes. | 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=late 15th century; start=1470; 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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