IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72579
accession number:	C.176-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Plate. Earthenware, tin-glazed lavender-blue overall; the reverse uneven and with numerous pin holes. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, green, and white.
Shape approximately 52, convex in the middle. Exceptionally heavy for its size. Circular with wide flat rim, shallow well, slightly convex in the centre, and concave base.
The central medallion contains a bust of a bearded man in profile to left, reserved in a bright yellow ground. On the sides, three blue knot motifs alternate with blue hearts between white foliated scrolls. The rim is decorated with a garland of leaves and berries, white scallops, and a blue band next to the edge. The back is painted in blue with a central cross, surrounded by three radiating squiggles alternating with three double-crossed circular motifs.
object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a bust of a bearded man in the central medallion.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: William Newall; Christie's, 27 June 1922, Catalogue of the collection of objects of art chiefly of the Renaissance period . . . formed by that well-known connoisseur William Newall, Esq., deceased, late of Redheath, Croxley Green, Herts., lot 20; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72579

PEOPLE
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man

SUBJECTS
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berry
leaves
berry
leaves



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed lavender-blue overall; the reverse uneven and with numerous pin holes. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, green, and white.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1520 - 1540
creation date earliest:	1520
creation date latest:	1540
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 24.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.7



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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