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The Temptation
Maker:
Unknown
(Probably)
Woodcutter:
Salomon, Bernard
(After)
Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl, painted in polychrome with The Temptation.
Shallow bowl. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and black.
Circular with a scalloped rim of twenty-two arcs, shallow curved sides moulded with petals, and convex centre; the foot is missing.
The Temptation. Adam sits on a bank on the left, extending his right hand to take the apple offered to him by Eve, who stands on the right. The Tree of Knowledge entwined by the Serpent is behind them. In the landscape background there is a stag on the left and a lion on the right. The rim is yellow. On the back, `Adam/et Eva' with a large loopy squiggle below is inscribed inside the footring in manganese-purple.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 34.5 cm
Height: 5.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1560
CE
-
1590
CE
'The design was based on Bernard Salomon's fourth woodcut in Damiano Maraffi's 'Figure del Vecchio Testamento, con versi toscani', Lyon (Jean de Tournes), 1554 (fig. 46). The camel has been omitted and the rest of the background is different.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and black)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and black.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: oval with gold border
Inscription present: Adam/et Eva following by a loopy squiggle
Accession number: C.217-1991
Primary reference Number: 73173
Packing number: EURCER 324
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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