Current Location: In storage
Titles
Erato
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
(Perhaps)
Entities
Categories
Description
Maiolica dish, painted in blue with the muse Erato, playing a long horn.
Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-blue overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinner than on the front and unevenly applied. The glaze on the front has crazed. Painted in blue.
Shape approximately 68 with shallower sides. Circular with shallow curved sides turning outwards at the rim, standing on a footring.
The muse Erato, playing a long horn, sits facing to the right on a rectangular block, inscribed on the left side `SL' [on top of each other] and `1618' with an arrow pointing upwards. The name `+ ERATONE' is inscribed to the right of her. A wreath of leaves encircles the rim.
Notes
History note: Probably Sotheby's, 2 May 1864, lot 143; sold to Wareham. Perhaps Marquis d'Azeglio; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-17 March 1868, Catalogue de faïences italiennes et autres ainsi que d'objets d'art et de curiosité . . . formant la collection de M. le Marquis d'Azeglio, lot 87. H.S. Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust.
Legal notes
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 23.7 cm
Height: 2.9 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
17th Century
Production date:
AD 1618
: dated
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-blue overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinner than on the front and unevenly applied. The glaze on the front has crazed. Painted in blue.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: 'SL', on top of each other and `1618' with an arrow pointing upwards.
- Text: 'SL' and '1618'
- Location: Front, on the left side
- Type: Inscription
- Text: + ERATONE
- Location: Front, to the right of Erato
- Method of creation: Inscribed
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.247-1991
Primary reference Number: 73564
Packing number: EURCER 686
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
