IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71521 accession number: C.1-1964 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Trilobate bowl, standing on a base composed of three lion's feet with vertical scrolls between them. Between each of the lobes there is a deeply grooved handle, terminating at the top in a grotesque mask with a gaping mouth and curling horns which rest on the rim. The interior is decorated with the Triumph of Amphitrite or Galatea. The goddess reclines in a cockle-shell chariot drawn by two dolphins, surrounded by tritons and sea nymphs, a sea horse, and putti frolicking among the waves. In the background there are buildings close to the shore with mountains beyond. Above, five putti holding foliage play amid clouds. The rim is yellow and orange. On the outside, each lobe is decorated with rocks and buildings in a landscape. The lion's feet base, scrolls and mask-handles are coloured yellow and orange. object type: maiolica trilobate cistern, painted in polychrome with, on the interior the Triumph of Amphitrite or Galatea, on the exterior landscapes. title: cistern NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Otto Beit; Sir Alfred Beit; Sotheby's, 16 October 1942, Catalogue of important Italian majolica, the property of Sir Alfred Beit Bt, MP, lot 61; sold to Blairman £115.0.0. Peel & Humphries, 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 Cecil C. Mason Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71521 PEOPLE ------------------- Amphitrite Galatea putti sea nymph Triton SUBJECTS ------------------- chariot dolphin sea horse landscape mountain sea waves chariot dolphin sea horse landscape mountain sea waves TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Fontana Workshop DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 49.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 48.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr Otto Beit Catalogue of important Italian majolica, the property of Sir Alfred Beit Bt, MP Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1964 Italian maiolica of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Ceramiche occidentale del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna Outstanding Maiolica in the Art Museum, Princeton University L'arte della maiolica in Italia Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_281_29.jpg height: 394 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1_1964_281_29.jpg height: 259 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_281_29.jpg height: 394 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1_1964_281_29.jpg height: 130 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_282_29.jpg height: 402 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1_1964_282_29.jpg height: 264 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_282_29.jpg height: 402 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1_1964_282_29.jpg height: 132 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_283_29.jpg height: 419 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1_1964_283_29.jpg height: 276 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_283_29.jpg height: 419 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1_1964_283_29.jpg height: 138 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_284_29.jpg height: 440 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1_1964_284_29.jpg height: 289 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_284_29.jpg height: 440 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1_1964_284_29.jpg height: 145 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_285_29.jpg height: 731 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1_1964_285_29.jpg height: 481 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1_1964_285_29.jpg height: 731 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1_1964_285_29.jpg height: 240 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_1_1964_286_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 743 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_1_1964_286_29.jpg height: 511 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_1_1964_286_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 743 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_1_1964_286_29.jpg height: 256 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_1_1964_287_29.jpg height: 492 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_1_1964_287_29.jpg height: 324 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_1_1964_287_29.jpg height: 492 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_1_1964_287_29.jpg height: 162 pixels width: 250 pixels