IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 137635 accession number: C.4-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 24 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue and copper lustre. Circular with flat rim, vertical sides, and flat central area. In the centre there is a heater-shaped shield bearing the arms per fesse azure and or a lion rampant countercharged within a blue spirally-entwined circle, from which eight curling sprays of bryony flowers and parsley-like leaves radiate towards another spirally entwined circle. The sides are decorated in lustre only, and the rim in blue and lustre with scrolling and wavying sprays of similar flowers and leaves. The back is decorated in lustre only with a central six-petalled flower surrounded by circlets and dots object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in cobalt-blue and copper lustre title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: possibly Émile Gaillard collection, sold Paul Chevallier, Paris, 8-16 June 1904, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de la Renaissance, tapisseries, tableaux anciens composant la Collection Émile Gaillard et dont la vente aura lieu à Paris en son hôtel, 1, Place Malesherbes, pp. 96-7, lot 411, illustrated, d. 42.5 cm. Sir Otto Beit, Bart., KCMG (1865-1930); sold by his daughter, Lady Monro, Sotheby's, 15 December 1961, Important Hispano-Moresque Pottery, p. 5, lot 3, illustrated LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the L.D. Cunliffe Fund and a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137635 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms coat-of-arms TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in cobalt-blue and copper lustre tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Spanish lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1450 - 1475 creation date earliest: 1450 creation date latest: 1475 culture: 15th Century, third quarter culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Manises pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Spanish Art CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr Otto Beit Important Hispano-Moresque Pottery, 15 December 1961 Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for the year 1961 Fifty-Ninth Annual Report of the National Art-Collections Fund A Benign Body Maioliche Ispano-Moresche a Firenze nel Rinascimento Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_4_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_4_1961.jpg height: 503 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_4_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_4_1961.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/668/large_C_4_1961_mas.jpg height: 1298 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/668/mid_C_4_1961_mas.jpg height: 634 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.4-1961_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/668/preview_C_4_1961_mas.jpg height: 317 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/668/C_4_1961_mas.ptif height: 3708 pixels width: 2925 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/496/large_C_4_1961_dc1.jpg height: 1123 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/496/mid_C_4_1961_dc1.jpg height: 548 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.4-1961_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/496/preview_C_4_1961_dc1.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/496/C_4_1961_dc1.ptif height: 3163 pixels width: 2885 pixels