IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73746 accession number: C.258-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze has crawled at the top of the rim and at centre back. Painted in greyish-blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange. Shape approximately 64 with plain rim. Circular with narrow, slightly sloping rim, short, almost vertical sides and flat centre. The central medallion contains a full-face bust of a woman wearing a ruff, framed by yellow and orange foliage between pairs of narrow concentric blue circles. Outside this, four panels of blue and white foliage alternate with smaller panels of orange and white foliage, enclosed by curved frames of yellow and orange egg and dart ornament or beading. The side is decorated with yellow and orange egg and dart between pairs of blue horizontal bands, and the rim with panels of yellow and white foliage alternating with smaller panels of blue and yellow plants, enclosed by curved green frames. The edge is yellow. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with a bust of a woman in the middle, surrounded by foliage in panels. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 102; 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/73746 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- foliage foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze has crawled at the top of the rim and at centre back. Painted in greyish-blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and orange. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1620 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1620 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 39.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware La Maiolica di Laterza Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica La Sistina della Maiolica Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_258_1991.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_258_1991.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_258_1991.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_258_1991.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_258_1991_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 747 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_258_1991_282_29.jpg height: 509 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_258_1991_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 747 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_258_1991_282_29.jpg height: 254 pixels width: 250 pixels