IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72140 accession number: C.15-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bowl. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 57. Circular with broad, slightly sloping rim and small, deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with four bands of reeding. The Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe. Pyramus, naked and pierced by his own sword, lies dead in the foreground. On the right, Thisbe is about to throw herself on a sword, watched by Cupid, standing bow in hand on the far left. In the middle, a lioness looks out from behind a fountain and rocks. In the landscape background there is a town and distant hills. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue-black: `Vedi Piramo & Tisbe/i sieme allombra./historia y' (Behold Pyramus and Thisbe together in the shadow. history y). object type: Maiolica broad-rimmed bowl, painted in polychrome with The Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Harris before 1930; Sotheby's, 20 June 1950, Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . ., lot 106; Alfred Spero; Marmaduke Langdale Horn. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: M.L. Horn Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72140 PEOPLE ------------------- Horn, Marmaduke Langdale (1889-1953) Pyramus Thisbe Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- sword lion dying landscape hills fountain town sword lion dying landscape hills fountain town TECHNIQUES ---------- Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1528 - 1531 creation date earliest: 1528 creation date latest: 1531 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) maker: Veneziano, Agostino DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of a Collection of Italian Maiolica belonging to Henry Harris Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . . Xanto and "F.R.": an insoluble problem? Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_15_1953_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_15_1953_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_15_1953_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_15_1953_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_15_1953_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_15_1953_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_15_1953_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_15_1953_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels