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A Netherlands Maiolica Vase from the Tower of London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

Bernard Rackham
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Amongst a quantity of broken pottery of various periods found last year during excavations in the moat of the Tower of London is a vase which throws some light on the obscure question of the origin of Netherlands maiolica. The vase is complete except for the foot, which was missing and has been restored in plaster in what is probably a correct reconstruction of its original form. The shape is well enough shown in the accompanying illustrations (pls. LV, LVI) to call for no description. It is virtually the same as that of a vase in many respects similar which was dug up some years ago in the City of London and was bought for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1938 at the sale of the collection of the late Mr. William Ridout (pl. LVII); of this second vase also only the body and neck remain, the missing foot having similarly been made good in plaster.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1939 , pp. 285 - 290
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1939

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References

page 287 note 1 A Summary Catalogue of the Collection of MSS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, (1897), iv, 559, v, 20Google Scholar.

page 288 note 1 Found in King William Street, City; reproduced in colours, Early Netherlands Maiolica, 1926, pl. xxvi.

page 289 note 1 Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, no. 4, 1937, p. 44Google Scholar.

page 289 note 2 Vol. xvi, no. 1–2, 1937, ‘Notes sur les faïenciers italiens établis à Anvers dans le premier tiers du XVIe siècle’, p. 193.

page 289 note 3 It is perhaps well to point out that there is no connexion between this sixteenth-century manufacture of maiolica in the Netherlands and the production of painted tin-enamelled (i.e. maiolica) tiles at Utrecht in the second half of the fourteenth century (see Hudig, F. W., ‘Maiolica olandese del Trecento’, in Faenza, (1933), xxi, 131Google Scholar); this was an isolated case, without effect on later developments.