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Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna
Painter:
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Lustre painter:
Andreoli workshop
Printmaker:
Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo
(After)
Maiolica dish on a low foot, painted in polychrome with Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, and black; red and golden lustre. Shape 78. Circular with shallow upturned sides and flat centre, standing on a low foot.
Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna. Mucius Scaevola stands on the right holding his right hand over flames burning on an altar, behind which stands a soldier and a nude boy, pointing towards Lars Porsenna, who sits on a throne beneath a draped curtain, his feet resting awkwardly on a foot stool. On the right side there is a tree and in the background two more trees and six tents. A black band and a yellow band encircle the outer edge. In the middle of the back there is a lustred swirl and an inscription in dark blue: `.1533./Mucio che la sua des/tra errate cuoce./Nella. . Deca d Tito Livio/Fra: Xato .A./da Rouigo./i Urbino.' (Mucius who scorches his erring right hand.In the Decade of Tito Livius Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo in Urbino.); on the sides, four complex swirls of rd and gold lustre and a yellow band on the edge.
History note: Alexander Barker; Sir Francis Cook, Bt; Wyndham F. Cook; Humphrey W. Cook; Christie's, 7 July 1925, Catalogue of an important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the property of Humphrey W. Cook, Esq., and removed from 8 Cadogan Square, S.W., being a portion of the celebrated collection formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart., lot 76; W.H. Woodward; Henry Harris; Sotheby's, 20 June 1950, Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . ., lot 117; Marmaduke Langdale Horn (1890-1953).
M.L. Horn Bequest
Diameter: 29.2 cm
Height: 5.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1953-10-22) by Horn, Marmaduke Langdale
16th Century, second quarter#
Renaissance
Production date:
dated
AD 1533
Probably lustred in Gubbio in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli
The figures were adapted from the Marriage of Alexander and Roxana, engraved by G.G. Caraglio after Raphael (Illustrated Bartsch, 28, p. 201, no. 62).
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, and black) reduced pigment lustre ( copper appearing red and silver-yellow appearing golden lustre)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, and black; red and golden lustre.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular with cut corners and red printed border
Inscription present: rectangular
Inscription present: rectangular
Accession number: C.12-1953
Primary reference Number: 71591
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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