Jug (c. 1350): Art, History and Details
Jug at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1350, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Jug (c. 1350) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The distinctive shape of this jug and its decorative glazes point to a kiln in Siena. The body of the vessel is painted in green and manganese to create an unusual scale pattern. Distinctive regional shapes and styles developed in medieval Italy making it possible to assign vessels such as this to a particular region.
Object facts
- Title: Jug
- Date: c. 1350
- Culture: Italy, Siena
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
- Dimensions: Overall: 26.9 x 10 cm (10 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Accession number: 1991.112
Collection credit
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Rainer Zietz
Further reading listed by the museum
- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
Sources
More in Lifestyle
Keep reading
