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Pottery: Unknown (Uncertain)
Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with, in the middle, the Virgin Mary and, surrounded by, a star, a ladder, a palm, trees, a city, a well, a mirror, a fountain, tower of David, a garden, a temple and a dragon.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, unevenly on the back which has many pinholes and a few gritty areas. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange.
Shape approximately 63.
In the middle, a mandorla encloses the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon and with twelve stars round her head. Above God the Father leans from clouds over a scroll inscribed `TO/TAPU/LERAES/AMICA/MEA IMACU/LA NO/TV PVLER' (Tota pulchra es, amica mea, imacula non tu pulchra), below which on the left is the sun and on the right, the moon. The mandorla is surrounded by symbols labelled on scrolls: a star, STELLA MARI(S) (Star of the Sea); a ladder, SCALACELI (stair to heaven); a palm, QV(A)SI PALMA; an apple or pomegranate tree, QV(A)SI PLARBO (?); a lemon tree, QVACIDRV(M); a cypress QV(A)SI CIPSV (cipressus); a city, CIVADEI (civitas dei); a well, PVAQUA (puteus aquae); an olive, QVASI OLIV(VM); a spotless mirror, SPE/CVLV SINCVL (speculum sine culpa); a sealed fountain, FONS/SIGNATVS; a tower of David, TVRRISDAV(ID); an enclosed garden, ORTVSCO CLV (hortus conclusus), a temple of the lord, TE(M)PLVMDO(MINI); and a dragon with seven heads, unlabelled. The rim is decorated with parti-coloured yellow and green leaves, carrot-shaped motifs and blue stems, tendrils and spots.
History note: Sydney Hand, Grafton Street, London, from whom purchased for £20 on 28 April 1919 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 45.2 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1625
CE
-
1675
CE
This dish was attributed to Seville when Glaisher purchased it, and has been reattributed to Laterza on the basis of its extremely white glaze, colouring and border pattern.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, unevenly on the back which has many pinholes and a few gritty areas. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange.
Inscription present: Tota pulchra es, amica mea, imacula non tu pulchra
Accession number: C.2117-1928
Primary reference Number: 73125
Old object number: 4851
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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