IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72834 accession number: C.190-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish. Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on the front; reverse unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown. Shape 67. Circular with curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring pierced by two correctly placed suspension holes. In the middle, Judith, holding the head of Holofernes in her left hand and a scimitar in her right, stands in front of two buildings. The date, `1585', is inscribed above her head, and `IVD/ITTA' on each side of it. The scene is enclosed by a ribbon, which loops over the surface to create four oval and four smaller lozenge-shaped panels. The former contain busts: at the top, a draped male bust in profile to left with two labels inscribed `.IL.GRA RVGG/IERO. B.O.'(il gran Ruggiero bello); at the bottom, a contemporary male bust full-face, with labels inscribed `.SALV.STRIO/HONESTO'; on the left, a female bust in profile to right with labels inscribed `MARGARITA/BELLA'. The female bust on the right is missing but the word `BEL(LA)' remains. Each of the smaller lozenges contains a putto's head with the date `1585'. The spaces are coloured alternately green with manganese-brown spirals and manganese-brown with incised spirals. A narrow blue band and a wide yellow band encircle the rim. The back is inscribed faintly inside the footring in black, `AD6/ O...Re/.1585.'(AD 6 October.1585.). object type: Renaissance, maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with, in the middle, Judith holding the head of Holofernes, surrounded by, on the sides, four busts and four panels. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Signor Avvocato Marcioni or Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli; Sotheby's, 16-17 [17] February 1914, Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto, lot 270; sold to J. Hall. Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd., London, from whom purchased on 7 October 1932 by 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/72834 PEOPLE ------------------- Judith Holofernes men women SUBJECTS ------------------- scimitar building scimitar building CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1585 - 1585 creation date earliest: 1585 creation date latest: 1585 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 29.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the collections of early Italian pottery formed by Signor Avvocato Marcioni and Cavaliere Capitano Lucatelli of Orvieto 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_190_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_190_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_190_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_190_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_190_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_190_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_190_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_190_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels