IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73392 accession number: C.235-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73392 PEOPLE ------------------- woman soldiers SUBJECTS ------------------- statue quiver tree stream mountains grass statue quiver tree stream mountains grass TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1560 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1560 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Domenego da Venezia DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 30.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_235_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_235_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_235_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_235_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_235_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_235_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_235_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_235_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels