IDENTIFIERS
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id:	48107
accession number:	C.127-1927

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 11 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, tin-glazed on the upper surface.  Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, orange, brownish-red, and, on the border tile, black.
Pentagonal with part of the right and left sides chipped off.
The main field has a yellow ground decorated with grotesques: a vase and a mask on a pole between addorsed griffins seated on a bowl, flanked by foliated scrolls. The border comprises a narrow row of oval and circular beads, and a wider row of egg and dart ornament.
title:	tile fragment

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purportedly purchased in Siena by F. Leverton Harris.


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
creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926

STABLE URL
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url:	http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48107

PEOPLE
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Petrucci, Pandolfo

SUBJECTS
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griffin
griffin



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1509 - 1509
creation date earliest:	1509
creation date latest:	1509
culture:	16th century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: uncertain

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 3.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.5



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica
Italian Renaissance Maiolica
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Italienische Majolika
Ancora due righe su Siena
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