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jug(spouted)

Object Type
Museum number: 1908,0729.1
Description: Jug, body of flattened spherical shape, tall neck flaring at rim. The body is divided into four zones, the lower part of the spout is flanked by dragons wings and supports a diagonally placed shield of arms; 1 & 4 a double-headed eagle displayed dimidiated; 2 & 3 out of a cloud in base a forearm holding a wreath. Earthenware covered on the outside and some of the interior with white slip and a transparent glaze marbled in blue.
Production date: 16thC (2nd quarter)
Production place: Made in: Po Plain; Made in: Veneto (?; Southern); Made in: Emilia-Romagna (?; North-east); Made in: Lombardy (?; South-east)
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Stefano Bardini; Field Collection by: Ceccarelli (?); Field Collection by: F Argnani (?)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Padua (?)
Materials
Technique: slipped; glazed; marbled
Dimensions: Diameter: 9.10 centimetres (max); Height: 21.60 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 441); Wallis 1907 / Byzantine Ceramic Art: Notes on Examples of Byzantine Pottery Recently Found at Constantinople (fig.54)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1908
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1908,0729.1
Conservation