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Venus after her Bath
Workshop:
Domenego da Venezia
(Probably)
Engraver:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
(After)
Artist:
Sanzio, Raffaello
(After)
Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Venus after her Bath.
Plate. Cream earthenware, tin-glazed cream overall; reverse tinged with green and speckled with blue. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black.
Shape 51. Circular with sloping rim and shallow well, slightly convex in the centre.
Venus after her Bath. The nude goddess wearing a headscarf sits on a rock while she dries her right foot with a towel. In the foreground are grass and a stony path, on the left, a rock, and in the distance, hills and sky. A narrow blue band and a wider yellow band encircle the rim.
History note: Kerin, London, from whom purchased for £1.1.0 in May 1918 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 20.4 cm
Height: 2.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1550
CE
-
1570
CE
The figure is either a transposed version of the print by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael or after one of the transposed copies by anonymous artists.
Decoration composed of paint ( blue, green, yellow, orange, and black)
Tin-glazing : Cream earthenware, tin-glazed cream overall; reverse tinged with green and speckled with blue. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black.
Inscription present: oval with gold border
Accession number: C.240-1991
Primary reference Number: 73453
Packing number: EURCER 674
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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