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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1470 - 1500; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, two-handled jar, throwing, Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior, and more thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, yellow, and a little green.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Harris, F. Leverton, 1926, F. Leverton Harris Bequest [C.92-1927]
Description: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior, and more thinly on the interior; base unglazed. Painted in dark blue, yellow, and a little green.
Albarello with slightly waisted body, sloping shoulders, short cylindrical neck, and two twisted handles, each with a thumb print at its base.
The back and front are decorated with rectangular panels bordered by slanting strokes between vertical lines. One contains a label, inscribed `DE CARNE/CRV ISOPIV/COTA CENO(E)/SONIFNO', with four blue half-leaves and three yellow trefoils above and below. The other contains a flower with four elongated yellow petals and a green centre, surrounded by a blue contour line with blue fan-like palmettes in the spaces. Below are blue slanting lines; on the shoulder San Bernardino rays; and, on the neck, yellow dashes between horizontal blue bands. The handles are striped in blue and yellow. | 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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