IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73029 accession number: C.203-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is uneven, tinged with pink and crazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange. Circular with flat surface and narrow, concave base. The central medallion contains a recumbent stag in a landscape enclosed by a circular yellow frame decorated with blue zig-zags. This is surrounded by lozenges in foliated circles alternating with stylised plant motifs reserved in an orange ground. Round the edge is a repeating border of blue lines and groups of four oblique strokes over a wide yellow band. The back is decorated in blue with a central `L' crossed, surrounded by five squiggles alternating with crossed lozenges. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with, in the middle, a recumbent stag, surrounded by lozenges and plant motifs. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt; Sotheby's, 8 May 1929, Catalogue of the very choice and valuable collections of Vicomte Bernard d'Hendecourt of 7 rue Bayard, Paris, lot 70; A. Spero and Kerin; Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd., 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, 1950. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73029 SUBJECTS ------------------- stag landscape stag landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is uneven, tinged with pink and crazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and orange. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1540 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1540 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.5 CITATIONS -------- 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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels