IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48237 accession number: M.2-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 4 June 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff, slightly pinkish moulded terracotta, tin-glazed white on the front; dribbles of glaze on the back. Triangular framgent with flat lower edge. The back is hollowed out where it projects at the front. The right edge is smooth and has some cement attached to the middle; the left side has been broken irregularly. Glaze colours: opaque lavender-blue lighter translucent blue, and manganese-purple. A pope, possibly St Gregory, kneels in profile to right. His head is raised and his left hand rests on his chest; his right hand is held just above waist level and originally had the fingers extended. He is bearded and bareheaded; his tiara rests on a bank of clouds behind him and there is another bank of clouds in front of him. title: relief NOTES ----- type: history note value: Formerly Arcangelo Marcioni or Ferdinando Lucatelli of Orvieto; sold Sotheby's, 17th February, 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, p. 32, lot 317; Sotheby's, 18 June 1928, Continental and English Pottery, lot 29; Alfred Spero, from whom purchased. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48237 PEOPLE ------------------- Marcioni, Arcangelo Lucatelli, Ferdinando pope SUBJECTS ------------------- tiara tiara CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1853 - 1853 creation date earliest: 1853 creation date latest: 1853 culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Della Robbia, Giovanni maker: Ginori family DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 55.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 47.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Twentieth Annual Report, 1928 Doccia Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum I Della Robbia. La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento Immagini di devozione ceramiche votive nell'area fiorentina dal XVI al XIX secolo Montecatini Val di Cecina. L'oratorio della miniera di Caporciano. Sotria, arte, tradizioni, curiosità La villa medicea di Careggi e il suo giardino. Storia, rilievi e analisi per il restauro --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/M_2_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_M_2_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/M_2_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_M_2_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/M_2_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_M_2_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/M_2_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_M_2_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels