IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47188 accession number: EC.30-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 56 (Poole 1995). circular with broad, almost flat rim, and deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with three bands of reeding.In the well, within narrow blue and yellow concentric circles, two putti support a shield charged with the arms of Gonzaga impaling Este: argent, a cross patty gules cantoned by four eagles displayed sable (Gonzaga modern granted 1433), an escutcheon overall, quarterly, 1, 4, gules a lion rampant argent (Bohemia), 2, 3, barry of six or and sable (Gonzaga ancient) impaling Este, quarterly, 1, 4, azure three fleurs-de-lis or a bordure indented gules, 2, 3, azure an eagle displayed argent (gules shown orange throughout). Below on a scroll is the impresa `XXVII'. The sides are decorated in bianco sopra bianco with palmettes and scrolls, and a blue line encircles the shoulder. The rim is decorated with Peleus and Thetis. Peleus stands beneath a tree, gazing at Thetis, who sleeps nude on the ground in front of him. Further to the right she is transformed into a swan-like bird as he embraces her, and then into a dragon from which he turns away in horror. Higher up on the right, a goddess appears to Peleus who kneels before an altar. In the distance there is a mountainous landscape and sky. Suspended from the tree there is a shield of testa di cavallo form charged with the impresa of gold rods in a crucible surrounded by flames in a blue ground. The edge is yellow. On the back there is a narrow yellow band round the base and a wider band on the edge. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with, in the well, the arms of Gonzaga impaling Este, and, on the rim, Peleus and Thetis. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: A member of the Rothschild family, Paris; Charles Damiron, Lyon; Sotheby's, 16 June 1938, Catalogue of the very choice collection of old Italian maiolica and Hispano-Moresque ware the property of Monsieur Damiron, 8 vue Vaubecour, Lyons, p. 63, lot 63. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47188 PEOPLE ------------------- Este, Isabella d' Damiron, Charles Peleus Thetis SUBJECTS ------------------- dining coat-of-arms impresa Peleus and Thetis coat-of-arms impresa Peleus and Thetis TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- turning CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1524 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1524 creation date latest: 1525 culture: 1520s culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Nicola di Gabriele Sbraghe da Urbino DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Splendours of the Gonzaga title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- The Damiron Collection of Italian Maiolica II Ancora nuovi piatti del servizio d'Isabella d'Este-Gonzaga Répertoire de la majolique italienne Enquête sur le sujet des majoliques Italian Maiolica The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain A Maiolica Service for Isabella d'Este Splendours of the Gonzaga Xanto and Ariosto Art on the Table Le maioliche italiane del Fitzwilliam in mostra Ceramiche italiane a Cambridge/Italian Pottery in Cambridge Potted History Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Earth and Fire Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Ovid in Six Volumes IV Metamorphoses with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller, II, Books IX-XV Ovidio methamorphoseos vulgare The Gonzaga Devices Nicolò Pellipario: ceramista fantasma 500 Ans Arts Décoratifs Européens Italian Renaissance Maiolica Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria La maiolica italiana del Rinascimento, Studi e ricerche The Golden Age of Maiolica-Painting. 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