IDENTIFIERS
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id:	48051
accession number:	C.142-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Plate. Earthenware. Tin-glazed very thickly overall. The glaze is bubbly, bumpy, and crazed. Painted in dark relief-blue and very dark purple.
Circular with wide sloping rim and small, shallow central depression, standing on a narrow footring.
The central medallion contains a rectangular shield bearing the arms quarterly azure and argent with in chief a label enclosing two fleur-de-lis azure with a bow above, and a stylised floral spray on either side. The rim is decorated with groups of short strokes, alternating squares and squiggles, and oblique strokes between concentric circles, a wreath of berries, and two purple bands round the edge. The middle of the back is marked `VF' in purple.
object type: Maiolica plate, painted in relief-blue and purple with a shield in the central medallion, with concentric circles of berries and bands on the rim.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48051


SUBJECTS
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shield
shield



TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1875 - 1925
creation date earliest:	1875
creation date latest:	1925
culture:	19th Century, Late#
culture:	20th Century, Early

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 20.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.4



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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