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Maker: Unknown
Renaissance maiolica shallow dish on low foot, painted in polychrome with St Cecilia between the piers of an arcade.
Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse greyish-white. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Shape 78, rather heavy for its size. Circular with shallow upturned sides, standing on a low foot.
St Cecilia, holding a set of pipes and a palm, stands with her head in profile in a niche between the piers of an arcade. In the foreground there is grass and on either side of the piers, trees, distant mountains and sky. The rim is yellow.
History note: Purchased from Fritz Broo on 26 September 1931 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Diameter: 22.5 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1530
-
1540
The figure may have been based on an engraving of a Muse by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse greyish-white. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: part of a circular label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.206-1991
Primary reference Number: 73063
Packing number: EURCER 689
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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