IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73191 accession number: C.219-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse tinged with green near the edges. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, grey, and white. Circular with narrow gently sloping rim and shallow well. The Flaying of Marsyas. On the left, Marsyas is tied to a tree. Apollo strides towards him holding a knife in his right hand. Marsyas' pipes and Apollo's lyre lie on the ground. In the landscape background there are rocks, shrubs, distant sea and mountains. The edge is yellow. On the back, single yellow bands encircle the foot, shoulder and edge. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with The Flaying of Marsyas. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73191 PEOPLE ------------------- Marsyas Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- knife pipe lyre tree sea mountains The Flaying of Marsyas knife pipe lyre tree sea mountains The Flaying of Marsyas TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse tinged with green near the edges. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, grey, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1565 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1565 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century, Late culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.0 CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_219_1991_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_219_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_219_1991_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_219_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_219_1991_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_219_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_219_1991_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_219_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels