IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73165 accession number: C.215-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Shallow bowl on foot. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinly applied and has a discoloured and speckled area on the right side. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Circular with a scalloped rim of sixteen arcs, deep sides and convex centre, standing on a low foot. The sides are moulded with radiating petals and a row of dimples below the rim. The Creation of Eve. Adam sleeps on a mound below a fruit tree on the left. Eve rises from beside him with her hands held up in prayer, looking towards God, who stands to the right with his right hand raised. In the landscape background there are two more trees, mountains, and birds in the sky. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue, `Dio quado formo eva' (God when he formed Eve), the last word projecting outside the foot. object type: Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on foot, painted in polychrome with The Creation of Eve. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, lot 9; 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/73165 PEOPLE ------------------- Eve Adam God SUBJECTS ------------------- birds trees Creation of Eve landscape mountains birds trees Creation of Eve landscape mountains TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinly applied and has a discoloured and speckled area on the right side. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1575 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Zuccari, Federico maker: Sadeler, Johannes I DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 27.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair CITATIONS -------- 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 The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings 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