Current Location: In storage
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The Judgement of Paris
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Workshop:
Grue family
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Description
Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with the Judgement of Paris.
Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides, more thickly than elsewhere round the remains of the foot. Painted in blue, several shades of green, yellow, and brown, with manganese outlines.
Circular with narrow rim and wide, shallow centre; the whole slightly warped. In the middle of the underside there is a circular depression containing the remains of a foot.
The Judgement of Paris. The three scantily draped goddesses are in the foreground, Juno and Venus standing and Minerva kneeling beside her armour. Further back on a hill, Paris, dressed as a shepherd, is seated with his bagpipes resting on his knee, holding in his right hand an apple inscribed `pulcrior/l.donu' (a gift for the more beautiful). A dog lies at his feet. The landscape background is filled with gambolling goats and sheep, and a horse. On the rim there is a border of stylised leaves between pairs of blue bands. The edge is green.
Notes
History note: Rey collection, Naples. Sotheby's, 21 November 1918, Catalogue of works of art . . ., part of lot 239; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher * for £55 but Sotheby's microfilm gives £5.5.0 (MS Cat 4801).
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 27.2 cm
Height: 3.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century
Circa
1600
-
1650
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, several shades of green, yellow, and brown, with manganese outlines)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white on both sides, more thickly than elsewhere round the remains of the foot. Painted in blue, several shades of green, yellow, and brown, with manganese outlines.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: when purchased the dish bore a label from a Christie's sale catalogue
- Text: 156 A flat tazza, without foot painted in different colours, crudely painted with the judgement of Paris who sits with an apple inscribed "Pulchrior/l dono" on a hill with cattle grazing; in the front two goddesses standing and one kneeling, the armour of Minerva lying on the ground. (10 in) -Castelli, style of Antonius Lollus, end of the 17th century. From the Rey collection, Naples.
- Type: Label
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Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2230-1928
Primary reference Number: 73268
Old object number: 4801
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
