IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72897
accession number:	C.194-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Dish. Reddish-buff earthenware, the front coated with cream slip (or tin glaze?) and lead-glazed; the reverse lead-glazed. Painted underglaze in blue, yellow, blue over yellow appearing green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple.
Shape 67. Circular with shallow curved sides, standing on a narrow footring pierced by two correctly placed suspension holes.
A woman three-quarter-length in profile to left spins thread from a distaff. She wears a ribbon round her bun, a necklace, and a low-necked greenish-yellow dress with long sleeves and a basque. The rim is encircled by narrow blue, dark yellow, and yellow bands.
object type: Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with a woman, three-quarter-length in profile with a distaff.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 83; 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/72897

PEOPLE
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woman

SUBJECTS
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distaff
distaff



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 31.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.4



CITATIONS
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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
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