1592996539000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-47105 1747246338918 1714465445000 1747245848890 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-47105 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47105 ba8e4b8f-377c-31ab-b164-5c5bc08a5dec 13 reference agent-184891 adlib-agent-184891 aae69265-3027-31c5-bb8d-079564a98f7d Seillière, Achille, Baron reference agent-152396 adlib-agent-152396 94c250f0-97ff-3cdc-a96e-153895d2f6d2 Beit, Otto reference agent-179498 adlib-agent-179498 a66203ba-d987-331b-b04a-3ce6ee72d5c0 Beit, Alfred, Sir person reference agent-159004 adlib-agent-159004 20819edb-79d1-3046-8b87-f005dd797e0d Muses person reference agent-159003 adlib-agent-159003 4148503f-c2eb-3c42-8a86-d0ebf4d60c27 Pierides person reference agent-150445 adlib-agent-150445 cd439c8d-0fd9-39e7-9062-341b662b8069 Apollo person reference agent-153277 adlib-agent-153277 ec3a8dd6-5f0b-3597-b38b-2feba1deeacf Minerva 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 reference term-1111 adlib-term-1111 46c949dd-f376-3538-878f-397baee5be09 mythology reference term-107486 adlib-term-107486 234fe16e-17e4-3db8-881a-443636aac5ca classical mythology Applied Arts Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome, with The Contest between the Muses and the Pierides. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides; the glaze on the reverse is pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, black, and a little white high-lighting. Shape 64. Circular with narrow rim, and wide, shallow well. The Contest between the Muses and the Pierides. The nine daughters of Pierus stand on the right separated by a stream from the Muses, led by Callipte who holds a harp. Above, a group of nymphs, gods and goddesses, including Apollo and Minerva, serve as judges. In the landscape background there are stunted trees on hills, and on the right, a coastline with buildings and distant mountains. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue, 'Ausae Cum Musjs Committere proelja/Voce Victae nunc Volitant jmmitantes/omnia pjcae/Fatto jn Urbino in Botega de Mo (o raised)/Guido da Casteldurante' (Having dared to have contests with the Muses and defeated by voice, they now fly away as magpies imitating everything). Single yellow bands encircle the junction of the rim and well, and the outer edge. Glass Case 3 reference exhibition-1593 adlib-exhibition-1593 fd30d837-baf8-3d76-a0b4-e807f467df73 Collection of Pictures of the Umbrian School and Other Works of Art Case 950, N reference exhibition-7 adlib-exhibition-7 402373ec-9de7-3594-a5c1-e9a53ff076ce Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 Case 4 reference exhibition-1594 adlib-exhibition-1594 2ab249bc-ee3d-33bb-86f5-580f556ad48e Italian Maiolica from the Fitzwilliam Museum no catalogue reference exhibition-1605 adlib-exhibition-1605 04d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1b Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum EC.35-1942 1 accession number EC.35-1942 47105 priref 47105 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47105 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47105 middle of back painted in blue Ausae Cum Musjs Committere proelja/Voce Victae nunc Volitant jmmitantes/omnia pjcae/Fatto jn Urbino in Botega de Mo (o raised)/Guido da Casteldurante' inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Glaisher Fund reference agent-150858 adlib-agent-150858 d36d1847-4d6a-33eb-974b-f4b061db49f9 Sotheby's 1942 1942 1942-10-16 bought 1545 1545 CE 1545 circa 1545 1550 1 1550 CE 1550 1550 workshop reference agent-39957 adlib-agent-39957 a857a45e-ad93-3e9f-87e7-346c948ec5a4 Durantino, Guido attributed painter reference agent-50229 adlib-agent-50229 4427783a-9bc6-3f58-adb4-00020a1ae1d9 Gatti, Camillo after painter reference agent-117964 adlib-agent-117964 525e5bf0-1995-3c79-a5a0-3b0834e1b96f Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) after printmaker reference agent-159002 adlib-agent-159002 93c9a327-1a2c-3628-ab1d-6a7c039660b0 Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo Although the attribution to a workshop in Urbino is secure, the identity of the painter has been the subject of speculation. Orazio Fontana , Guido da Urbino's son, can be excluded because the painting on the front, and the handwriting on the back are far superior to those on a dish decorated with this subject which bore his monogram, which was formerly in the Schlossmuseum, Berlin but was destroyed during World War II. Bernard Rackham in 1940 considered that it might have been painted by Camillo Fontana, and in 1987 J.V.G. Mallet proposed Camillo Gatti as a likely executant. Another dish decorated with this subject in the same workshop was formerly in the collection at the Hôtel Lambert, Paris, sold at Sotheby's Paris on 11 October 2022. It is inscribed with the subject, the date, 1539, and 'In Botega de Mo Guido/de CaSteldurati' (In the workshop of Maestro Guido of Casteldurante). See Documentation. The literary souce for the story of Muses and the Pierides was the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book V, 294-678. The nine daughters of Pierus, King of Emathia, overconfident of their musical talent, challenged the Muses to a singing contest. After all the contestants had performed, the adjudicating nymphs declared the Muses the winners. The Pierides unwisely clamoured against their decision, and as punishment for their presumption and rudeness were transformed into chattering magpies. The source of the design was an engraving by G.G. Caraglio after 'The Contest between the Muses and the Pierides' by Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), probably the painting now in the Louvre in Paris (inv. 595: MR 69 dated to c. 1523-27. The inscription on the back of the dish was taken from the bottom of the print where it appears in capitals, AUSAE CUM MUSIS COMMITTERE PROELIA VOCE VICTAE NUNC VOLITANT IMMITANTES OMNIA PICAE. 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1695949555000 1 image 9 media image reference term-90855 adlib-term-90855 b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dac dish history note Probably the Comtesse de Cambis; Baron Achille Seillière; sold Christie's, 13 July 1888, Catalogue of Old Italian Maiolica from the Collection of a Well-known Amateur, lot 198 (95 guineas); Sir Otto Beit, London; Sir Alfred Beit, BT, MP, London; sold Sotheby's, 16 September 1942, Catalogue of the Important Italian Majolica the property of Sir Alfred Beit, B.T., M.P., p. 23, lot 63; sold to Louis C.G. Clarke for the Fitzwilliam. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Probably mentioned 311-2 reference publication-2998 adlib-publication-2998 443b0248-5e0b-36b0-8ca6-acdca5c52888 Histoire de la céramique: Étude descriptive et raisonnée des poteries de tous les temps et de tous les peuples Publ. No. 838, illustrated pl. XXVI 104-5 reference publication-2999 adlib-publication-2999 4e269c8d-631e-34c3-a9a4-23c5962ea0ab Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr Otto Beit Publ. Text p. 81, illustrated fig. 18. 81 reference publication-200000966 adlib-publication-200000966 672eb0ab-7ded-3102-a561-9a9568bee96b Majolica at the Exhibition of Italian Art Publ. p. 322, no. 1068 322 reference publication-3044 adlib-publication-3044 79758593-6b11-35fb-b361-384d93822be9 A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, l930 Publ. Discussed p. 340; illustrated pl. CIXa and b 340 reference publication-200000967 adlib-publication-200000967 6e8bc1a6-ae07-3f4d-b0c6-801848011289 Majoliken aus der Werkstatt der Fontana Publ. Illustrated in colour on front cover, in blakc and white on p. 292, figs. 9, 9a, and text see pp. 293-4, and listing of documentary pieces, p. 298, no. 35. 292-4, 298 reference publication-200000968 adlib-publication-200000968 5fe4ce32-e6e9-3237-a65b-9ad0cd61e374 In Botega di Maestro Guido Durantino in Urbino reference publication-8419 adlib-publication-8419 539aee1e-9757-3e3f-aa55-2099c7400e7e Âge d’or de la Faïence italienne au XVIe siècle Ref. p. 192, no. 53 192 reference publication-3001 adlib-publication-3001 27f71291-a6cd-3682-964b-19e526b12700 The Illustrated Bartsch 28 formerly volume 15 (Part 1) Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century Ref. The subject is taken from Book V, lines 294-678. The words at the end of line 299 imitantes omnia picae are included in the inscription on the dish. 258-85 reference publication-3022 adlib-publication-3022 010d272f-1847-3d31-afc3-5c277e9854c1 Ovid in Six Volumes III Metamorphoses with an English Translation by Frank Justus Miller Publ. pp. 365-6, no. 404. pp. 365-6 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cf. pp. 24-33, with German translation pp. 33-40 for a dish decorated with the same subject inscribed on the reverse, 'Questo fu fatto nela botega/de Mo Guido Vasaro/da Castello Dur/ante in Urbi/no, a di 5/Novembre nel 1542' 24-33 reference publication-200002970 adlib-publication-200002970 12dc71e9-349f-3eab-9d92-7e31ff4ce8be Maioliche dello "Schlossmuseum" di Berlino perdute nella Seconda Guera Mondiale Cf. pp. 44-5, lot 4, a large dish 45 cm in diameter, decorated with 'The Challenge of the Pierides' with the arms of Petrucci above, and inscribed on the reverse: Le diSprezatrice di/Baccho ConueSe in/piche/1539/in Botega de Mo Guido/de CaSteldurati'. Not cited by Poole, 1995 under no. 404. The painting by Rosso Fiorentino of c. 1520, is illustrated. Musée du Louvre, inv. 595: MR 69, date given c. 1523-27. 44-5 reference publication-8903 adlib-publication-8903 91451c3e-4e14-3fbe-97c5-6d227ba39ad5 Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs- d’oeuvre reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance object name reference term-108520 adlib-term-108520 3d03db93-5ad2-382d-a3fd-74714dff5549 harp plant reference term-58471 adlib-term-58471 ce00216e-da4e-37b3-974c-c2b6377d6c19 tree activity reference term-23596 adlib-term-23596 f5fe6ab7-fea6-31d5-8f77-1ad5f40613cc music place type reference term-106275 adlib-term-106275 a1bd9046-a422-36ac-a493-60fa7c7f7e91 landscape named event reference term-110709 adlib-term-110709 ce9cc434-0950-3a3c-8f0a-f7229163c004 Contest between the Muses and Pierides literal harp harp literal tree tree literal music music literal landscape landscape literal Contest between the Muses and Pierides Contest between the Muses and Pierides

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