Current Location: In storage
Titles
An Abduction
Maker(s)
Workshop:
Domenego da Venezia
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Categories
Description
Renaissance maiolica deep dish, painted in polychrome with An Abduction, depicting a woman kneeling before a statue of Caesar, with soldiers restraining two women, in a landscape.
Deep dish. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. The surface is very glossy. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, brown, black, and white.
Shape 68. Circular with deep sides and flat everted rim, standing on a footring.
An Abduction. On the right a woman kneels before a statue of Caesar or a god on a high pedestal. Behind her, a soldier restrains a standing woman and, further to the left, another seizes a second woman. Further back are two men, one of whom has a quiver on his back, and looks into the distance. In the foreground to left are a tree and grass beside a stream, and in the background, a tree, the sea and a shoreline with distant mountains. Round the edge are two narrow blue bands with groups of short oblique strokes at intervals, and a yellow band on the rim. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue `.rapimento. digiganti -' (rape of or by the giants). The sides are decorated with concentric bands: yellow, blue, yellow, blue, two yellow.
Notes
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Legal notes
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 30 cm
Height: 6.1 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1560
-
1570
School or Style
Renaissance
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, brown, black, and white)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. The surface is very glossy. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, brown, black, and white.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: circular with blue border
- Text: 12/848a
- Method of creation: Inscribed in pencil and ink
- Type: Label
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
- Text: 463/a
- Method of creation: Inscribed in pencil
- Type: Label
- Text: .rapimento. digiganti
- Location: On the back in the middle
- Method of creation: Inscribed
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.235-1991
Primary reference Number: 73392
Packing number: EURCER 388
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
