IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73360 accession number: C.232-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 August 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-blue overall, except the edge of the base. Painted in blue and white. Shape approximately 52. Circular with a wide, almost flat rim, shallow well, slightly convex in the centre, and concave base. A central five-petalled flower is surrounded by two concentric circles of parti-coloured blue and pale blue trefoil leaves on stems. Round the edge is a narrow border of scrolls between pairs of narrow blue bands. On the back, midway across the rim, there is a band of scrolling foliage painted alla porcellana in blue. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in blue and white with a central five-petalled flower surrounded by trefoil leaves on stems. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1885-1950); 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73360 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- Cream earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-blue overall, except the edge of the base. Painted in blue and white. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Maiolica and Ceramics in the National Museum of the Bargello --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_232_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_232_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_232_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_232_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_232_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_232_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_232_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_232_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels