IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73453 accession number: C.240-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Venus after her Bath. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. 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/73453 PEOPLE ------------------- Venus SUBJECTS ------------------- towel path rock hills grass towel path rock hills grass TECHNIQUES ---------- Cream earthenware, tin-glazed cream overall; reverse tinged with green and speckled with blue. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Domenego da Venezia maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio maker: Sanzio, Raffaello DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.1 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_240_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_240_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_240_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_240_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_240_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_240_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_240_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_240_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels