Carinated bowl

The bowl features a banded rim with an external carination, a truncated cone-shaped basin, and a disc-shaped foot. The piece has never before been displayed. The inner surface is decorated with concentric lines in blue and orange ending with a spiral in the center, on a stanniferous enamel covering.
This piece exemplifies the most fundamental and prevalent decoration of this shape, characteristic of Rome and Lazio in the last quarter of the fifteenth century, derived from the repertoire of Archaic Majolica. In this instance, there is a yellow-orange band on the interior of the container, approximately corresponding to the line demarcating the wall from the small handle. 
For comprehensive comparisons on shape and decoration, see the materials from the excavation of the exedra at Crypta Balbi. According to the catalog entries, the “continuously spiral-carinated bowls” are dated to the last third of the sixteenth century (Ricci, Venditelli 2013, pp. 108–109). However, it is likely that the proposed chronology for the exedra materials exceeds the actual period of production for this type of pottery by at least fifty years.
Refer to inv. 1314 for comparisons and further details on shape and decoration.
This work has never before been displayed.

Luca Pesante

Fair.

Ricci Marco, Vendittelli Laura (a cura di), Museo Nazionale Romano. Crypta Balbi. Ceramiche medievali e moderne. II. Il Cinquecento (1530-1610), Milano 2013.