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Workshop: Unknown (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica shallow dish on a high foot, painted in polychrome with, in the middle, a youth holding two staffs, and on the sides and back, grotesques.
Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and white. Shape 83. Circular with shallow upturned sides and on the underside, three concentric ribs encircling the junction with the stem. Circular trumpet-shaped foot separated from the short stem by an annulet.
In the middle, a youth holding two staffs stands in a landscape enclosed by a circle of green simulated beading with yellow and orange `rope' edges. The sides are decorated with radiating grotesques, and the rim with a yellow band with orange scallops over it. On the back, grotesques radiate from a band of green simulated beading round the junction of the dish and stem which has a yellow and orange anulet. The foot is decorated with grotesques and yellow and orange bands round the edge.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 8.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1570
CE
-
1600
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and white)
Widest Point
Diameter 20.8 cm
Foot
Diameter 8.3 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed off-white overall. Painted in dark blue, blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and white.
Inscription present: square
Accession number: C.224-1991
Primary reference Number: 73284
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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