IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72596 accession number: C.177-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on a low foot, painted in polychrome with a half-length nude woman in the central medallion title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72596 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- leaves leaves TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1545 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue des tapisseries, antiquités grecques et faïences italiennes faisant partie de la collection de Somzée A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Italian Maiolica and Europe --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_177_1991_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_177_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_177_1991_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_177_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_177_1991_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_177_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_177_1991_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_177_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels