IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73292
accession number:	C.225-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Dish on a high foot. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the dish almost mat with speckles, the underside of the base pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and black.
Circular with shallow upturned sides and, on the underside, a rib encircling the junction of the dish and foot. The foot has a moulded edge and a swelling at the top.
In the middle, Charity sits on a rock with two children standing beside her in a landscape encircled by simulated beading with yellow and orange `rope' edges. The sides are decorated with radiating grotesques interrupted at the top by an oval shield charged with the arms party per fess vert and argent, two eels or serpents entwined between two flowering plants gules, ensigned by a prelate's hat and flanked by tassels arranged one, two, three. Round the rim is a narrow orange band and a wider yellow band decorated with orange, blue, black, and white strokes. On the back, grotesques radiate from a circle of simulated beading between yellow and orange `rope' edges. The foot is decorated with grotesques and has a yellow and orange petal border; the swelling at the top is yellow and orange.
object type: Renaissance maiolica dish on a high foot, painted in polychrome with, in the middle, Charity and two children and, on the sides and back, grotesques.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 19 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, first part of lot 277; 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/73292

PEOPLE
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Charity

SUBJECTS
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grotesque
shield
coat-of-arms
landscape
grotesque
shield
coat-of-arms
landscape



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the dish almost mat with speckles, the underside of the base pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and black.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1580 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1580
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Patanazzi family

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.2



CITATIONS
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Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II
Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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