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Workshop: Patanazzi family (Probably)
Maiolica triangular inkstand, painted in polychrome, with a harpies, masks and grotesques.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for the underside of the feet. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white. Triangular with a bust of a harpy on each corner and three lion's-paw feet. The lower part of each side is decorated with gadrooning and a mask flanked by swags of fruit and foliage. Above, each side has a flat zone with a projecting moulding at the top. The interior is divided into three triangular compartments, two open and one closed with a circular hole in the centre for an inkwell. The feet are coloured yellow, the gadrooning blue and orange, and the corners, masks, and swags in polychrome. The flat areas on each side are decorated with grotesques. The top of the closed compartment is decorated with two dolphins and the other two with writing implements: quill pens, knives and shears. The borders are yellow, orange, and green.
History note: V.H. 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.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Height: 12.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, Late
17th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1575
CE
-
1605
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white)
Sides
Width 28.8 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for the underside of the feet., and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Inscription present: circular
Accession number: C.230-1991
Primary reference Number: 73324
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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