IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48107 accession number: C.127-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: Purportedly purchased in Siena by F. Leverton Harris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48107 PEOPLE ------------------- Petrucci, Pandolfo SUBJECTS ------------------- griffin griffin CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1509 - 1509 creation date earliest: 1509 creation date latest: 1509 culture: 16th Century, Early culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Siena pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 3.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 CITATIONS -------- 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 Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Ancora due righe su Siena Early English and Continental Pottery from the John Philip Kassebaum Collection Italian Maiolica in the National Museums of Scotland Majolique, La faïence italienne au temps des humanistes 1480-1530 Italian and Other Early Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery Musée du Louvre. Catalogue. Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art 1995-2002 ---