IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73519 accession number: C.244-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, dark grey, and white. Bulbous ovoid body with a short neck and flat, slightly everted rim. On the front, supported by female nudes, is a cartouche with a mask at the top and the bottom, enclosing an oval shield charged with the arms per fess, in chief three busts, a helmeted Roman soldier between two civilians, in base or three broken lances gules (shown orange) with the letters M L over R, overall a fess argent. On the right and left are circular panels; one containing a bust of a woman three-quarters to left, wearing a purple headdress, a blue earring and a blue decolleté bodice, the other, a bust of a Roman soldier with his head in profile to left, wearing a blue helmet and armour. Both are reserved in yellow grounds decorated with orange and white striations. The rest of the surface is decorated with scrolling foliage and cornucopiae reserved in a thick, dark blue ground, incised here and there with tendrils. There are orange, blue, and yellow horizontal bands round the base and a yellow between blue round the neck. object type: Renaissance maiolica pharmacy or storage jar, painted in polychrome with, on the front, a shield supported by female nudes and, on the right and left, a panel with a bust of a woman and a panel with a bust of a Roman soldier. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: C. & S. Bourgeois Frères; Cologne, Heberle, 19-27 October, 1904, Collection Bourgeois Frères, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité composant la collection Bourgeois Frères et dont la vente aura lieu à Cologne dans la grande salle du casino (Augustinerplatz 7) du mercredi 19 au jerdi 27 octobre 1904, lot 110; Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 19 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 240; 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; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73519 TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and interior; base unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, dark grey, 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, third quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Domenego da Venezia DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 37.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 36.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Collection Bourgeois Frères, Catalogue des objets d'art et e haute curiosité composant la collection Bourgeois Frères et dont la vente aura lieu à Cologne dans la grande salle du casino (Augustinerplatz 7) du mercredi 19 au jerdi 27 octobre 1904 Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance Important British and Continental Ceramics and Glass including Meissen Porcelain from the Royal House of Saxony Richesses de la céramique dans les musées de Picardie --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_244_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_244_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_244_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_244_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_244_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_244_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_244_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_244_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_244_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels