1592999602000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-73074 1747246347327 1714466808000 1747245848890 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-73074 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73074 48782659-c447-336e-8f62-a11a4841c064 7 person reference agent-160595 adlib-agent-160595 14954245-b90c-33c8-b2e1-314d6b3842a3 Aeschylus person reference agent-160594 adlib-agent-160594 bd2f7d00-d53b-3082-a1bc-6ebc8296bde5 Fate reference term-108348 adlib-term-108348 667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02ff tin-glazed earthenware reference term-42865 adlib-term-42865 92be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9 maiolica reference term-113302 adlib-term-113302 2747e058-f9ff-3d49-9bc9-c69e97b18c26 H.S. Reitlinger dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white reference term-108364 adlib-term-108364 115b8729-a560-35c1-b654-4b9d2fc5f68b high-temperature colours Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-110500 adlib-term-110500 6dc34c6c-d553-36b2-b489-9797a89deeea society/human life Applied Arts Renaissance maiolica dish on a low foot, painted in polychrome with The Death of Aeschylus. Dish on a low foot. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Shape 78 with a slight step in the foot. Circular with shallow upturned sides, standing on a low foot. The Death of Aeschylus. Aeschylus reclines on the left beside a bush and rocks with an open book on the ground in front of him. An eagle flying above has just dropped a tortoise, which has landed upside down on his head. On the right are rocks and a stream, in the middle, five long-legged, long-necked birds, and a ruin in front of which the Fate, Clotho, sits holding a distaff. In the distance is a ruined rotunda and mountains. The rim is yellow. Inside the foot are two wide yellow bands each between narrow blue. The outside of the foot is yellow, and wide yellow and narrow blue bands encircle its junction with the dish. The back of the dish is encircled by a narrow blue band midway across, and narrow blue and wide yellow by the rim. no catalogue reference exhibition-1605 adlib-exhibition-1605 04d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1b Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum C.207-1991 1 accession number C.207-1991 73074 priref 73074 1989 1989 1989 Allocated by Wendy Rose when object left Maidenhead packing number EURCER 692 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73074 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73074 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum H.S. Reitlinger Bequest reference agent-150552 adlib-agent-150552 566a6fcb-b8cd-3926-9bbf-78d0c4a5cc81 Reitlinger, Henry Scipio 1950 1950 1950 bequeathed Entry date: 1991-04-29 1535 1535 CE 1535 circa 1535 1550 1 1550 CE 1550 1550 probably maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown Faenza or Forli reference term-106602 adlib-term-106602 bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e 16th Century reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance reference term-108597 adlib-term-108597 3730ea9f-6a64-338b-bdbd-0662bf55b8d2 literal Italy Italy country probably Faenza reference term-108462 adlib-term-108462 1b4f34f9-febd-3a7b-93c8-e82d7c7abcf3 literal Italy Italy country possibly Forlì reference term-39575 adlib-term-39575 cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4ab tin-glaze reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Diameter cm 26.0 Height cm 4.3 reference media-39075 adlib-media-39075 1f5ddfae-926c-3530-82e5-1181d3125e1e jpeg aa/aa9/C_207_1991_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926355172 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_207_1991_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1702926355172 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_207_1991_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926355172 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_207_1991_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1702926355172 1 image 0 media image reference media-39076 adlib-media-39076 6c6ea99f-a659-317c-9e10-bf7fba38975e jpeg aa/aa9/C_207_1991_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926703827 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/mid_C_207_1991_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1702926703827 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/C_207_1991_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1702926703827 1 image jpeg aa/aa9/preview_C_207_1991_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1702926703827 1 image 1 media image reference media-39077 adlib-media-39077 95e8ed98-3863-3ef4-9066-cd5adbf8e9fa jpeg aa/aa19/C_207_1991_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 744 1702926640829 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/mid_C_207_1991_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 511 width pixels 500 1702926640829 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/C_207_1991_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 744 1702926640829 1 image jpeg aa/aa19/preview_C_207_1991_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 255 width pixels 250 1702926640829 1 image 2 media image reference term-90855 adlib-term-90855 b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dac dish dish on a low foot history note Probably Mrs Bryan Harland; Sotheby's, 20 May 1932, Catalogue of continental pottery, lot 21; William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, lot 2; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-3336 adlib-publication-3336 db61c5a2-6c32-3107-8d1d-a46ac021325f Catalogue of continental pottery Publ. p. 27, U.1a & pl. XXIX p. 27 reference publication-3009 adlib-publication-3009 ab0bda93-3c88-3d2c-b561-bef24a90b12d A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto reference publication-3189 adlib-publication-3189 3fc83054-71f4-3b1b-a013-6f3c3335eb6f The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware Publ. pp. 258-60, no. 336, where other dishes with this subject are cited pp. 258-60 reference publication-3010 adlib-publication-3010 e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cf. pp. 240-2, no. 101, a probably Urbino dish decorated with this submect. The Fitzwilliam's dish is mentioned on p. 240, and p. 242, note 4. 240-2, reference publication-5679 adlib-publication-5679 2b220458-5727-3c6a-9df2-0ae5333e653b Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance reference term-10618 adlib-term-10618 9ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136 Renaissance object name reference term-113161 adlib-term-113161 b061933c-7380-3124-861b-ffba497b9416 distaff animal reference term-108769 adlib-term-108769 9fbb9214-8308-3502-a7ac-2161a4be9ab1 tortoise animal reference term-25536 adlib-term-25536 dc50e6b9-2ea9-373f-b7ab-4ee201ca0256 birds activity reference term-107842 adlib-term-107842 27833ccc-7855-34b5-90ee-ea160782c67d dying place type reference term-30336 adlib-term-30336 5ad01f09-b031-3d7c-a10e-5298406ca3b5 rocks place type reference term-60242 adlib-term-60242 c4dfac5b-ab1c-3f6f-85de-0077f7cd82cc ruin place type reference term-58359 adlib-term-58359 fcf696fc-dabe-3fb7-b016-0e87f7a353c4 stream literal distaff distaff literal tortoise tortoise literal birds birds literal dying dying literal rocks rocks literal ruin ruin literal stream stream

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dish Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing object OBJECT