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Potter: Unknown
Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in blue, green and orange with, in the middle, a rossette, and around the rim, interlacing stems.
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: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1885-1950); 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 (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, first half
Circa
1520
-
1550
Kiln wasters decorated with 'Crown of Thorns' borders have been found at Deruta, and fragments of dishes elsewhere in the region of Perugia. The interlacing stems (almost always in green) differ from piece to piece, sometimes having projections which resemble shoots, and sometimes spines. The border is found with a wide range of central motifs on plates and dishes of different shapes and sizes, sometimes in conjunction with blue criss-cross borders on the reverse. A large dish bearing the arms of Cardinal Silvio Passerini, Bishop of Cortona (created 1517, Bishop 1521, died 1529) was sold at Sotheby's on 3 November 1970, lot 18, and another with the arms of Pope Paul III (1534-49) provide an approximate date range.
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
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