Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unidentified Deruta pottery
Entities
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Basin
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Dish
- shallow basin for a ewer
- dish for a ewer
Categories
Description
Maiolica basin for a ewer, painted in blue and brassy-yellow lustre, with a bust of a woman in profile surrounded by panels of scales and foliage divided by rays and buds, and a rod entwined by ribbon
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and with brassy-yellow lustre. Circular with slightly sloping, narrow rim; wide, shallow well with a space for the ewer in the centre, surrounded by a circular rib and further out by two less pronounced mouldings. (Poole 1995, Shape 71). In the middle, a woman, half-length in profile to left, faces a plant with three flowers, enclosed by a circular rib and a broad lustre band decorated with blue interlace. The sides are divided into six panels by radial lines flanking stems with four buds; three panels are decorated with scale pattern and three with a formal plant. A rod entwined by ribbon encircles the rim. On the back are concentric lustre bands: one close to the centre, two close together, one alone and two more close together. The lustre has run down on one side of the dish.
Notes
History note: Dr Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941); Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, the first portion; 19-20 July 1939, the second and final portion., lot 24; Louis C.G. Clarke.
Legal notes
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 32.3 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1960)
by
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Dating
16th Century, Early
Renaissance
Circa
1500
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1530
Note
See the notes to C.84-1927, a basin of similar type
School or Style
Renaissance
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( in blue)
reduced pigment lustre
( silver-yellow, appearing brassy yellow)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, moulded, and tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and with brassy-yellow lustre.
Tin-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.84-1961
Primary reference Number: 48565
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
