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Maker: Unknown
Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on a low foot, painted in polychrome with a half-length nude woman in the central medallion
Shallow bowl on a low foot. Cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Shape 80. Circular with 'bats-wing' scalloped rim of twenty-four arcs, shallow sloping sides and convex centre, standing on a low foot.
The central medallion contains a half-length nude woman with long hair, reserved in a yellow ground. The sides are decorated a quartieri with radiating panels of stylised leaves reserved in grounds of alternate colours. The rim is blue. On the back, blue ribs with short blue or orange slanting strokes between them radiate from a blue band encircling the foot. Below the rim are wide blue, yellow, and blue bands.
History note: Léon de Somzée; Brussels, 22 May 1901, Catalogue des tapisseries, antiquités grecques et faïences italiennes faisant partie de la collection de Somzée, lot 407 & pl. IX. William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, second part of lot 25; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1545
CE
-
1570
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Foot
Diameter 10.8 cm
Widest Point
Diameter 22.3 cm
Moulding
: Cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular with scalloped edge and blue border
Inscription present: remains of a Ridout collection label
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.177-1991
Primary reference Number: 72596
Packing number: EURCER 370
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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