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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Artist: Gentili, Berardino (Perhaps)
Maiolica panel, painted in polychrome with a three-quarter length figure of the Virgin, holding the Christ Child in her arms.
Panel. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front. Painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, orange, brown, grey, and manganese.
Rectangular, slightly convex.
A three-quarter length figure of the Virgin, holding the Christ Child in her arms, appears above seven clouds of smoke and flames amid which are the heads of three souls in Purgatory. The Virgin wears a yellow dress and a blue cloak with a yellow star on the right shoulder, a yellow fringe and a green lining. Over her right hand she has a scapula. The background is green and round the outer edge there is a narrow dark brown and a wider yellow line.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher (MS Cat. 1127 and Typed Cat. `Mr. Sutton had priced this piece a £3.10.0).
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 1.5 cm
Height: 27.2 cm
Width: 21.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1750
-
1800
Castelli, by a member of the Gentili family, perhaps Berardino (1727-1813)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, olive-green, yellow, orange, brown, grey, and manganese)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2239-1928
Primary reference Number: 73278
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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