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Description: | Artist: Unknown, potter; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1600; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, two-handled jar, throwing, Buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr, 1928, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest [C.2194-1928]
Description: Two-handled jar. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. The jar's exterior surface is extremely shiny.
Albarello tapering towards the base with two twisted handles, each with a thumb print at its lower end.
On each side is a rectangular panel of orange and blue geometrical ornament flanked by vertical green, yellow and green lines edged in blue. Above and below are four horizontal blue bands. The lower part is decorated with a row of reversed orange Ss and dots over two yellow bands, with three blue bands and a yellow band below. On the shoulder there are orange Cs and dots imposed on two yellow bands with three blue bands and one yellow above. The handles are 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=16th century; start=1500; end=1600 | 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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