IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73125
accession number:	C.2117-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: 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.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sydney Hand, Grafton Street, London, from whom purchased for £20 on 28 April 1919 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73125

PEOPLE
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Virgin Mary

SUBJECTS
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moon
star
mirror
ladder
dragon
palm
cypress
tree
olive
apple tree
carrot
Immaculate Conception
well
fountain
temple
garden
moon
star
mirror
ladder
dragon
palm
cypress
tree
olive
apple tree
carrot
Immaculate Conception
well
fountain
temple
garden



TECHNIQUES
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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.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1625 - 1675
creation date earliest:	1625
creation date latest:	1675
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 45.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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