1592995815000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-15553 1756836093428 1714464867000 1756836091182 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-15553 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15553 c8b4d32e-8124-3098-8796-c290951f55c4 12 not known whether the tile was from Marmirolo or the Castel San Giorgio, Mantua reference agent-184884 adlib-agent-184884 0c9c53e9-9951-3dd2-978a-b6e9b5bf4c60 Francesco II Gonzaga not known whether the tile was from Marmirolo or the Castel San Giorgio, Mantua reference agent-184883 adlib-agent-184883 2fc30f28-ebb4-339f-a724-f32b1854174a Isabella d'Este reference term-108348 adlib-term-108348 667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02ff tin-glazed earthenware reference term-42865 adlib-term-42865 92be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9 maiolica blue, green, dark yellow and manganese reference term-108364 adlib-term-108364 115b8729-a560-35c1-b654-4b9d2fc5f68b high-temperature colours Decoration blue, green, dark yellow and manganese reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-39575 adlib-term-39575 cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4ab tin-glaze Front earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, dark yellow and manganese; the back has been carved out to produce three concentric circles and triangular depressions in the corners white reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing Applied Arts Maiolica floor or pavement tile, painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese with a hound sejant muzzled and leashed. Very pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, dark yellow and manganese. Square with deep sides. The back has been scooped out to produce three raised concentric rings. On the front, a white hound sejant in profile to the right with its head turned sharply to the right. The hound is outlined and shaded in blue and wears a dark yellow muzzle with a leash of the same colour coiling out behind it. The ground is green with yellow patches and tufts of blue grass. The background is manganese. no catalogue reference exhibition-1605 adlib-exhibition-1605 04d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1b Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum 183 reference exhibition-2376 adlib-exhibition-2376 3e2208a0-ad25-3b64-b03f-cb63aa00fd02 Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment C.61-1927 1 accession number C.61-1927 15553 priref 15553 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15553 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15553 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 reference agent-151483 adlib-agent-151483 26fbb332-a159-3961-80ad-ff1bd1a618c2 Harris, Frederick Leverton 1927 1912 1927-12 bequeathed 1492 1492 CE 1492 circa 1492 1494 1 1494 CE 1494 1494 probably maker reference agent-153985 adlib-agent-153985 6edf9e47-aa3d-3506-b4c7-210b3dee06fe Antonio dei Fedeli A white hound sejant (seated), muzzled and leashed, symbolizing fidelity, was a device adopted by Gianfrancesco Gonzaga (1395-1444), first Marquis of Mantua. It was one of eight Gonzaga devices pictured on tiles commissioned from Pesaro in 1493 by Giovanni Sforza on behalf of Marquis Francesco II Gonzaga (1466-1519) for his villa at Marmirolo. However, on their arrival at the Castel San Giorgio in Mantua on 1 June 1494, some of them were laid in the studiolo of his wife, Isabella d'Este (1474-1539). The project seems to have been undertaken partly for aesthetic reasons and partly as a measure to rid the room of mice which had been nesting under the floorboards. Apart from this, maiolica pavements were not very practical in domestic situations because their colourful designs were gradually worn away by people's feet. The back of this tile, like some of the others from this pavement, was scooped out to produce three concentric circles. This may have been done to speed the drying of the tiles before firing or to prevent them warping in the kiln. The potter's name was not mentioned in the surviving corres¬pondence of 1493-4 concerning the tiles, but he may have been Antonio dei Fedeli of Pesaro, who was active in Pesaro between 1458 and 1509. On 7 May 1496 wrote to Isabella asking to be paid for tiles for which he had been prom¬ised payment six months earlier. Presumably these were a differ¬ent order but it seems likely that, having been satisfied with the tiles decorated with devices, Isabella would have extended her patronage to the same potter for another commission. The other seven emblems on the tiles were the arms of Gonzaga; a dove perching on a coiled and smoking fuse inscribed `VRAI AMOVR NESE CHANGE' (true love does not change); a sunburst interwoven by two ribbons inscribed `PER VND/IXIR' (for a desire); a white doe below a scroll inscribed `BIDER GRAFT' (righteous power); a three-tiered island surmounted by a diamond and surrounded by smoking brands, inscribed on the lowest tier of the island in Greek `AMVMOC' (blame¬less); a muzzle over a ribbon inscribed `CAVTIVS' (more cautiously); and a steel gauntlet attached to a ribbon inscribed `BVENA FE NONES MVDABLE' (good faith is unchangeable). After her husband's death, Isabella moved to different apart¬ments on the ground floor of the Corte Vecchia, and recreated her studiolo there. The first studiolo no longer exists and the subsequent history of the tiles is unknown until some, whether from there or from Marmirolo is not clear, were recorded in the collec¬tions of Attilio Portioli of Mantua and Willelmo Braghirolli in 1878. Those now in the museum collec¬tions were acquired after that date. See the Documentation for locations. reference term-106437 adlib-term-106437 59e72604-922d-3194-ac46-27c1c5ac76a4 15th Century, Late reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-113179 adlib-term-113179 e74d25a1-07c3-3a30-b91b-004673211ee5 literal Italy Italy country Pesaro very light buff reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Depth cm 4.7 Height cm 23.4 Width cm 23.4 reference media-12624 adlib-media-12624 3c61be44-689a-3e43-8ec3-318c3d7d2ed2 jpeg aa/aa19/C_61_1927.jpg 1 height pixels 755 width pixels 760 1702926425917 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/mid_C_61_1927.jpg 1 height pixels 497 width pixels 500 1702926425917 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/C_61_1927.jpg 1 height pixels 755 width pixels 760 1702926425917 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/preview_C_61_1927.jpg 1 height pixels 248 width pixels 250 1702926425917 1 image 0 media image reference media-187238 adlib-media-187238 2cb7233d-8c06-35a3-8904-dfb06108eb5a jpeg aa/aa30/C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 952 width pixels 1024 1702926648282 1 image jpeg aa/aa30/mid_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 465 width pixels 500 1702926648282 1 image jpeg aa/aa30/C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 952 width pixels 1024 1702926648282 1 image jpeg aa/aa30/preview_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 232 width pixels 250 1702926648282 1 image 1 media image reference media-3534609810 portfolio portfolio-media-3534609810 5c59dfc8-548d-3188-a116-ca0d08a05569 jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/429/748/large_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 768 width pixels 1024 1529196049000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/429/748/mid_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 375 width pixels 500 1529196049000 1 image C.61-1927_201407_jas244_mas.tif 1529196049000 1 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/429/748/preview_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 187 width pixels 249 1529196049000 1 image pyramid tiff portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/429/748/C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.ptif 1 height pixels 4838 width pixels 6451 1529196049000 1 image 2 media image reference media-2119052511 portfolio portfolio-media-2119052511 ee90c71e-04c1-3334-a914-14cada718ccc jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/47/124/large_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 768 width pixels 1024 1695948637000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/47/124/mid_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 375 width pixels 500 1695948637000 1 image C.61-1927_201407_jas244_mas.tif 1695948637000 1 image jpeg portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/47/124/preview_C_61_1927_201407_jas244_mas.jpg 1 height pixels 187 width pixels 249 1695948637000 1 image 3 media image reference term-30977 adlib-term-30977 fd3a0487-abe3-340b-bcf0-614e3e3de91f floor tile object name reference term-42865 adlib-term-42865 92be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9 maiolica category pavement tile history note From a series of tiles commissioned for the Gonzaga for a pavement in his villa at Marmirolo, but also used in Isabella d'Este studiolo in the Castello di San Giorgio at Mantua. Purchased from Durlacher Bros., 142 New Bond Street, London, on 20 February 1920 by F. Leverton Harris ( 1864-1926). reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Illustrated, p. 269 p. 269 reference publication-200000551 adlib-publication-200000551 3207842e-cdf8-3183-9744-0a826b8bb725 Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - I Publ. Illustrated, pl. VIIIE and pl. XIV, third shelf down on the right side at the back. See also p. 6 of text. p. 6 reference publication-1569 adlib-publication-1569 4825b83f-3a92-3c6d-b58b-2686ea0509e0 The Leverton Harris Collection reference publication-1571 adlib-publication-1571 4e0f6f47-bf3a-3285-8417-f9bff14edde2 Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica Publ. Mentioned. Fake for the 1911 exhibition in Paris?, p. 45, no. 89 p.45 reference publication-1573 adlib-publication-1573 847520ff-9058-30e2-b93b-f574486a1f1f Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600 Publ. pp. 283-4, no. 357, where literature and locations of other examples are cited. pp. 283-4 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Publ. pp. 28-9, no. 9, and front cover 28-9 reference publication-3378 adlib-publication-3378 e4a41d6d-c98c-3959-bcb4-041c12eeb88c Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Publ. back cover, and p. 48, fig. 31, where the problem of mice and rats is mentioned. p. 48 reference publication-1576 adlib-publication-1576 34b8dbd3-6101-37d4-b573-0989a84b02c2 The Scholar in his Study Publ. p. 12, illustrated 12 reference publication-6374 adlib-publication-6374 ca695373-60c6-3457-9c4c-0105050abb24 The Dog, 5000 Years of the Dog in Art reference publication-7751 adlib-publication-7751 cfa79c6e-ae29-31e3-85fa-3a838db1be3c Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment reference publication-1570 adlib-publication-1570 587a2fe6-cae3-3832-a62b-2a2a1a3714e5 Splendours of the Gonzaga Cf. Twelve tiles now in the Musée Jacquemart André, Paris, one with the hound design, pp. 390-393, 'Le Puvimento de la Grotta', ill. on p. 391. Then in the collection of Edouard André. pp. 390-3 reference publication-200000552 adlib-publication-200000552 dbbe505c-4329-308f-b82a-02a825ea3c43 Isabelle d'Este et les artistes de son temps reference publication-1572 adlib-publication-1572 c069cd15-a980-3635-b91d-c6323a1457f4 L'Italia Splendida Cf. Six tiles in the Louvre, one with the hound design, pp. 44-6, nos. 158-163, no. 160 on pp. 44-5, Louvre Inv. OA 6342C is the hound tile. pp. 44-6 reference publication-1574 adlib-publication-1574 159ac368-4d4c-3d0c-a949-566b288054c6 Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux Cf. Eight tiles in the Museo Castello Sforzesco, Vol. V, colour plate 52 and see p. 282, no. 52. Museo Castello Sforzesco, nos. 24-30 and 352. There are seventeen tiles in Musée Jacquemart-André, see Institut de France, Musée Jacquemart-André, Catalogue itineraire, 7th edn., 1933, p. 130, no. 917. Acquired from Angiolini, Bologna, 1893. p. 282 reference publication-1575 adlib-publication-1575 ba63987d-d256-3a38-831a-07afe71f63c2 Masterpieces of Western Ceramics, Italian Ceramics reference publication-1584 adlib-publication-1584 b61dbd8b-dd02-33e0-92bb-88847c71de61 Isabella d'Este Furstin und Mazenatin der Renaissance Cf. pp. 239-243, nos. 249-56. The author, Grazia Biscontini Ugolini, provides a fuller account of the tiles than the earlier references given here. 239-43 reference publication-3413 adlib-publication-3413 8c672f50-56ae-3905-934c-aeda20f7cede Milan, Museo d'Arti Applicate, Le ceramiche, Tomo primo Cf. p. 170 pl. 199, colour illustration of floor tile with VRAI AMOVR NESE CHANGE, (V. & A inv. 334:6-1903). p. 171 pl. 200 four Gonzaga floor tiles from the same set, the hound at lower left. Attributed to Pesaro, c. 1494. Workshop of Antonio Fedeli. 23.5 x 23.5 cm. (V. & A. inv. nos. 334:1-5-1903) 170 reference publication-7526 adlib-publication-7526 ceb92dd4-7854-3192-82d7-ddfa5f0f3dd4 Italian Renaissance Maiolica Cf. pp. 56-7, no. 19 six tiles from the pavement with Gonzaga emblems in the Louvre, inv. nos. OA 6432A-F. The white hound tile similar to the Fitzwilliam's is illustrated as C on p. 56. Attributed to the workshop of Antonio dei Fedeli, Pesaro c. 1493-4. 56-7 reference publication-8945 adlib-publication-8945 9af956eb-b189-300f-96c4-6f5724ebad10 Majolique, La faïence italienne au temps des humanistes 1480-1530 Cf. pp. 218-21, no. 38, a tile with the impresa of a sun face and a scroll inscribed 'PER VN DIXIR., adopted by Marquess Ludovico II (1412-78) of Mantuq following his defeat at the Battle of Caravaggio in 1448. This tile was donated to the Courtauld Gallery in 2020. See Sani, 2023. 218-21 reference publication-8439 adlib-publication-8439 28a20a57-b6c1-390d-898a-0896650411e9 Maiolica before Raphael. Italian ceramics before 1500 Cf. pp. 383-5, no. 201, a tile painted with the arms of Gonzaga from the same group, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, inv. no. WAQ 2001.38. This was formerly in the collection of Dr Otto Lanz of Amsterdam (1865-1935). 383-5 reference publication-8466 adlib-publication-8466 4c005d49-2023-314f-8cdd-34a2a03f0c7e Italian Maiolica and Europe Cf. pp. 59-63, no. 3 a tile with the Gonzaga emblem, a sun with a human facet and the motto PER UM DIXIR for a desire) on a ribbon. The author discusses the circumstances of the commission and mentions the other emblems used on the tiles. The tile differs from the Fitzwilliam's in having only one circle cut into the reverse. 59-63 reference publication-8943 adlib-publication-8943 29e4cc2a-e0e8-3153-be27-f107624f1cd0 Italian Maiolica and Other Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-129156 adlib-term-129156 8f319524-dfb9-3ba8-8dca-711353acbfdc Marmirolo reference term-75037 adlib-term-75037 b7278bfa-9db3-39c2-8218-6b4932875a16 Mantua animal reference term-106792 adlib-term-106792 9dad6dce-12d1-35e5-82ba-35b95d0e469a hound activity reference term-107877 adlib-term-107877 d3fd41d2-8962-3d09-a893-f20ebb772237 sitting literal hound hound literal sitting sitting

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