IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73308 accession number: C.228-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the base off-white. Painted in pale blue, dark blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white. Hexagonal with tall concave sides and projecting top with an oval depression in the middle and grotesque male masks on the angles. Below the masks there are male and female caryatids each terminating in a leaf and a scroll. On the base scars have been left by the removal of three feet. The depression for salt is decorated with a nymph holding a green drape behind her reserved in a blue ground enclosed by a yellow and orange border. The rest of the top is blue with darker blue petals radiating from the depression. The masks are yellow and orange with green hair; the moulding below, blue, yellow, and orange. The herms are pale orange-brown, the leaves green, and the scrolls pale and dark blue. Each side is decorated with a female nude holding a drape, reserved in a black ground. object type: Renaissance maiolica salt, painted in poychrome with a nymph, masks, herms and female nudes. title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bowring Hanbury, London; Knight, Frank & Rutley, 17 July 1934, Catalogue of porcelain, pictures, miniatures, silver, furniture, etc. removed from a West-End mansion, part of lot 18; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73308 PEOPLE ------------------- herm grotesque female TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the base off-white. Painted in pale blue, dark blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, third quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Urbino potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.0 dimension: Length units: cm value: 27.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of porcelain, pictures, miniatures, silver, furniture, etc. removed from a West-End mansion Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica The Painter of the Coal-Mine Dish --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/C_228_1991_1_200811_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 683 pixels 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