These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Potter: Unknown
Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in blue, green and orange with, in the middle, a rossette, and around the rim, interlacing stems.
Plate. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-white overall. Painted in blue, green, and orange.
Shape approximately 57, but shallower. Circular with wide sloping rim and shallow well.
In the middle is an eleven-pointed green and blue rosette reserved in an orange ground, framed by two pairs of narrow blue concentric circles with orange and blue spots between them and darker blue strokes over them. Outside this, at the cardinal points, there are three curved strokes. The rim is decorated with two interlacing green stems with projecting spines. The back has blue criss-crosses round the edge.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Diameter: 23.1 cm
Height: 4.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Circa
1520
-
1550
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, and orange)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-white overall. Painted in blue, green, and orange.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.201-1991
Primary reference Number: 72998
Packing number: EURCER 433
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72998 Accessed: 2024-11-14 17:18:04
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72998
|title=Plate
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-14 17:18:04|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-72998
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_201_1991_281_29.jpg"
alt="Plate"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Plate</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
