Ewer
On display
Details
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Title
Ewer
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Artist/maker
Medici porcelain factory (1575 - early 17th century) (manufacturer) -
Associated place
Florence (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1575 - 1587 -
Material and technique
soft paste porcelain, moulded with underglaze blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
18.5 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1896.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1896.CDEF.C298
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Glossary of terms
porcelain
Further reading
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica (Oxford/Phaidon, Christie's in association with the Ashmolean Museum, 1989), 32
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 63 on p. 64, illus. p. 64 fig. 63
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), p. 415 no. 219
