IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73278
accession number:	C.2239-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Maiolica panel, painted in polychrome with a three-quarter length figure of the Virgin, holding the Christ Child in her arms.
title:	panel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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).


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:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73278

PEOPLE
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Virgin Mary
Christ




CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Gentili, Berardino

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 1.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 21.0



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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A Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May 26th-June 14th, 1902
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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