IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73466 accession number: C.241-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Plate. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 51. Circular with gently sloping rim and shallow well, slightly convex in the middle. Cupid, wearing a pale purple drape and holding an arrow, sits on a rectangular pedestal in a landscape with grass and stony paths in the foreground, a bare shrub on the left, and blue hills and buildings in the background. A blue band and a wider yellow band encircle the rim. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Cupid, sitting on a pedestal in a landscape. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: J.P. Heseltine; Sotheby's, 24 May 1935, Catalogue of valuable bronzes and statuary . . . Italian majolica etc., the property of the late J.P. Heseltine Esq., of 91 Eaton Square S.W., lot 90 (1); 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/73466 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- arrow shrub grass path hills buildings arrow shrub grass path hills buildings TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white. 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of valuable bronzes and statuary . . . Italian majolica etc., the property of the late J.P. Heseltine Esq., of 91 Eaton Square S.W. 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_241_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_241_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_241_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_241_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_241_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_241_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_241_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_241_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels