IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73335 accession number: C.231-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse yellowish-cream, thinly and unevenly applied with trickles running across the surface. There is a fault on the front near the lower edge. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and brown. Shape approximately 77. Circular with shallow curved sides, standing on a low foot. The Entombment of Christ. Mary Magdalene, the Virgin, Joseph of Arimathea and St John (?) are lowering the body of Christ into the tomb. Behind them a man holds up a lantern, and in the background are a tree, a hill and sky. The centre of the back is inscribed in brownish-orange with the cursive monogram HR. object type: Maiolica dish on low foot, painted in polychrome with The Entombment of Christ. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bt; Christie's, 24 April 1934, Catalogue of Italian majolica, Chinese porcelain French furniture, tapestry and Eastern carpets, the property of Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bt deceased, late of Smeaton Hepburn, East Lothian, N.B., lot 7; 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73335 PEOPLE ------------------- Mary Magdalene Virgin Mary Joseph of Arimathea St John man SUBJECTS ------------------- lantern tree tomb hill The Entombment lantern tree tomb hill The Entombment TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse yellowish-cream, thinly and unevenly applied with trickles running across the surface. There is a fault on the front near the lower edge. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and brown. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1679 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1679 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Rombaldoni, Ippolito DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 28.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Light of the World; Christ's story told through Art CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Italian majolica, Chinese porcelain French furniture, tapestry and Eastern carpets, the property of Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bt deceased, late of Smeaton Hepburn, East Lothian, N.B. Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Per Ippolito Rombaldoni Tin-glaze and Image Culture: the MAK Maiolica Collection in its Wider Context --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_231_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_231_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_231_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_231_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_231_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_231_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_231_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_231_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_231_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_231_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_231_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_231_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_231_1991_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 740 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_231_1991_284_29.jpg height: 514 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_231_1991_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 740 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_231_1991_284_29.jpg height: 257 pixels width: 250 pixels