IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73623 accession number: C.251-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; three stilt marks on the reverse of the well. Painted in greyish-blue, greenish-grey, yellow, orange, and brown. Shape 65. Circular with gently sloping rim and wide shallow well. A ruined arcade with two arches giving views of distant castles and mountains. Between the arches there are two fluted columns on pedestals, one decorated with an oval relief of a putto, the other with a rectangular landscape. In the foreground a man reclines against the first column, and another man holding a staff and backing the viewer stands further back to the left. A brown band encircles the rim. The back is decorated in brown with five simplified plants and a mark comprising AF on either side of the shank of an anchor or grapnel. object type: Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a ruined arcade with two arches, giving views of distant castles and mountains. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thomas Sutton; Christie's, 8 March 1934, Catalogue of Chinese porcelain & furniture the property of the Rt Hon. the Viscount Barrington and porcelain, faience, decorative objects and furniture, Eastern rugs and tapestry the properties of Thomas Whitney Esq., deceased, a lady of title and various other sources, lot 57; 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/73623 PEOPLE ------------------- putto man SUBJECTS ------------------- pedestal staff landscape ruins arcade castle mountain column pedestal staff landscape ruins arcade castle mountain column TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; three stilt marks on the reverse of the well. Painted in greyish-blue, greenish-grey, yellow, orange, and brown. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1660 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1660 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 17th Century# culture: 18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Africa, Siro Antonio maker: Rampini Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Chinese porcelain & furniture the property of the Rt Hon. the Viscount Barrington and porcelain, faience, decorative objects and furniture, Eastern rugs and tapestry the properties of Thomas Whitney Esq., deceased, a lady of title and various other sources Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica La maiolica di Pavia tra seicento e settecento Museo d'Arti Applicate, Ceramiche Tomo II --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_251_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_251_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_251_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_251_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_251_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_251_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_251_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_251_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_251_1991_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 749 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_251_1991_283_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_251_1991_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 749 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_251_1991_283_29.jpg height: 254 pixels width: 250 pixels