IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48362 accession number: EC.19-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 31 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed white overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and black. Circular with sloping rim, upturned slightly at the edge; deep sides moulded with oblique reversed gadroons; flat centre with ribs encircling its outer edge and the emplacement for the ewer in the middle; low foot ring on the back. (Poole, 1995, Shape 69) The central medallion contains a landscape in which a fox attempts to wrest a shield from the possession of a bear. The bear holds a sword in its right forepaw and rests its left on the shield, which is of testa di cavallo form, charged with the arms per fess gules and argent, overall a tree eradicated. A scroll above is inscribed, 'E COSI VA CHE TROPO VOLLE' (This is what happens to him who wants too much). The rest of the base is decorated with a battle between male and female satyrs and centaurs. The gadroons on the sides are painted in blue with stylised plants. On the rim there are grotesques reserved in a blue ground, interrupted by eight oval medallions, painted with eight subjects from the Bible and Roman history: Marcus Curtius leaping into the chasm, Dido falling on her sword, David with the head of Goliath, Judith with the head of Holofernes, Mucius Scaevola thrusting his right hand into the fire, a woman with a shield, Horatius defending the bridge and, probably, the suicide of Lucretia. The back is decorated in blue and yellow with a trophy of two crossed quivers, a bow, and an arrow, surrounded by delicate coiling blue stems with blue, orange, and green foliage. The footring is blue with an invected circle within it. The sides and rim are decorated with blue and orange horizontally striped petals between blue bands and there are two blue bands on the outer edge. object type: Maiolica basin for ewer, painted in polychrome, with a fox and bear with a shield of arms in a landscape, a battle between centaurs and satyrs, and eight medallions painted with subjects from the Bible and Roman history surrounded by grotesques. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lionel de Rothschild (1808-79), before 1862; presumably Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917); Mrs Leopold de Rothschild (née Marie Perugia,1862-1937); Alfred Spero, London. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund and with a contribution from the National Art Collections Fund (now The Art Fund). STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48362 PEOPLE ------------------- centaurs lapiths satyrs grotesque Marcus Curtius David Goliath Mucius Scaevola Horatius Dido Judith Holofernes Lucretia SUBJECTS ------------------- shield coat-of-arms sword fire wolf Fox bear plant landscape bridge shield coat-of-arms sword fire wolf Fox bear plant landscape bridge TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed white overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and black. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Vulcan Painter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 46.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance and More Recent Periods title: The National Art Collections Fund at the Fitzwilliam Museum, An Exhibition to celebrate the Fund's 85th Anniversary title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund title: Majolique. 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