drinking-vessel
- Museum number
- 1852,0630.1
- Description
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Drinking vessel; earthenware; wide sloping neck, pear-shaped body on a splayed and hollow foot; flat arched handle with false spout applied; four spouts on the body; vessel covered inside and out with a creamy tin-glaze, blue specks; painted with copper-brown lustre and deep blue; exterior, handle, neck, body and foot are edged and divided by a cabled border and have an overall lustre and `bryony' pattern; on either side a coat of arms in a tear-drop-shaped shield, per fess or and azure, a lion counterchanged, possibly an incorrect version of the arms of the Scarperia (?) of Florence; the shield is surrounded by simple flowers and scrolls on a dotted background, all lustre upon cream.
- Production date
- 1420-1480 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 33.60 centimetres
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Width: 15.20 centimetres (base)
- Curator's comments
- Marco Spallanzani in letter to Tim Wilson of July 1998 does not think that the arms are those of the Gentili, perhaps as a result of the vase painter making a mistake in copying the tinctures. His letter is on the object file. IN his 2006 book he identifies them tentatively as da Scarperia, p.213. Linked with bacino with same arms in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ibid plate 33 and p. 213.
Bibliography: Van de Put & Rackham 1916 no.618; Charleston 1968 p141, fig.397; González Marti 1944 Vol I pp.275-276 pl.368.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc1)
- Condition
- Several chips, some lustre damaged on foot.
- Acquisition date
- 1852
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1852,0630.1
