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Ceramica Laziale*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

David Whitehouse
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This article reconsiders a group of medieval glazed wares from central Italy, to which (in Whitehouse 1967: 60–6) I gave the cumbersome name ‘Pottery with plant and abstract decoration’. The material of this type from Rome is the subject of a new study by the Italian scholar, Otto Mazzucato (1976a), under the title ‘Ceramica laziale’. As a result of this and other recent research, it appears now that a homogeneous group of wares decorated with brown and green stripes, ‘arcades’ and vegetal motifs under a yellowish or greenish lead glaze was produced in several parts of Lazio and Umbria in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. In most, if not all, of these areas it was the earliest locally made medieval glazed pottery with painted ornament. It was superseded by Archaic maiolica in the thirteenth century. Mazzucato makes a convincing case for regarding Ceramica laziale as a local product inspired by pottery imported from Sicily or the eastern Maghreb. Although influence from the south would explain the geometric ornament of Ceramica laziale, it does not account fully for the frequent use of leaf scrolls and other vegetal motifs, for which a local origin appears probable.

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Papers of the British School at Rome , Volume 44 , November 1976 , pp. 157 - 170
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Copyright © British School at Rome 1976

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