IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73125 accession number: C.2117-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73125 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary SUBJECTS ------------------- 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 ---------- 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 ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1625 - 1675 creation date earliest: 1625 creation date latest: 1675 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 45.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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_2117_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2117_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2117_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2117_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2117_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2117_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2117_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2117_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels