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Plate: C.201-1991

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Current Location: In storage

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Potter: Unknown

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 23.1 cm
Height: 4.1 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Deruta ⪼ Umbria ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

16th Century
Circa 1520 - 1550

School or Style

Renaissance

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, and orange)

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-white overall. Painted in blue, green, and orange.

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: circular with serrated edge

  • Text: 392/3
  • Method of creation: Inscribed in indelible
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.201-1991
Primary reference Number: 72998
Packing number: EURCER 433
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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