IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73191
accession number:	C.219-1991

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; 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
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991


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:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73191

PEOPLE
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Marsyas
Apollo

SUBJECTS
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knife
pipe
lyre
tree
sea
mountains
The Flaying of Marsyas
knife
pipe
lyre
tree
sea
mountains
The Flaying of Marsyas



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse tinged with green near the edges. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, grey, and white.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1565 - 1580
creation date earliest:	1565
creation date latest:	1580
culture:	16th Century, Late
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 24.1

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.0



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung
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