IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73085 accession number: C.208-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Panel. Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and a little white. Rectangular. The infant Christ lies on a mound in the middle, supported by St Anne (?). The Virgin kneels to the right of him and Joseph sits beside a tall rock and a tree. To the left, one shepherd kneels with a hound and three stand beside him adoring the Child. Behind the group there is a bearded man, two oxen and a ruined arch. Two more standing shepherds and one seated playing a pipe to his sheep are in the landscape background. object type: Renaissance maiolica panel, painted in poychrome with The Adoration of the Shepherds. title: panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 19 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 288; 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/73085 PEOPLE ------------------- shepherd St Anne St Joseph Christ Virgin Mary SUBJECTS ------------------- ox sheep hound tree arch Adoration of the Shepherds ox sheep hound tree arch Adoration of the Shepherds TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and a little white. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1535 - 1540 creation date earliest: 1535 creation date latest: 1540 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo maker: Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 25.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.8 CITATIONS -------- Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich 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_208_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_208_1991.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_208_1991.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_208_1991.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels