Ars Ornamentum: analysis of the decorative repertoire present on the tin-glazed wares of southern production from Cencelle (VT)

Giving beauty, elegance and particular meanings to objects of practical use requires precise skills and knowledge even more if you choose to resort to the decorative arts. In particular, the figurative universe of law medieval pottery is populated by original images resulting from the confluence of heterogeneous traditions that is rendered through different procedures and application techniques. By virtue of this, it was decided to focus attention on the decorative repertoire visible on some tin-glazed wares, found in Cencelle (VT), most likely produced in Southern Italy, between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This contribution aims to shed light on the choice, organization and various stages of implementation of the decorative program using an approach that analyzes material culture using traditional and scientific techniques. The integration of the data obtained will be fundamental not only to understand the technological processes related to decoration but also to try to identify a series of representations that are more or less directly linked to reality and to the recipients of the ceramic containers.