IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73824 accession number: C.263 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the underside of the foot appearing pale beige. Painted in greyish-blue, dark green, yellow, dark yellow, orange, brown, and manganese. Campana-shaped with a swelling below the rim, standing on a tall, trumpet-shaped foot with a curved edge; domed cover with a narrow rim and stepped finial. The cover is decorated with two landscapes with buildings and figures, in shaped frames reserved in a blue ground decorated with polychrome flowers and foliage. The rim is blue with a yellow edge and the finial is striped horizontally in blue, yellow, orange and blue. The upper part of the vase is decorated with a continuous landscape with buildings, ships, men fishing and dogs playing. On the lower part there are two landscapes with buildings enclosed in blue scrolled frames, reserved in a yellow ground decorated with polychrome flowers and foliage. The foot is decorated with a continuous landscape and a border of yellow and orange ovals between a brown and a blue band. object type: Maiolica vase and cover, painted in polychrome with, on the cover, two landscapes with buildings and figures and, on the vase, landscapes with buildings, ships, men fishing and dogs playing. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ben Nathan, London, from whom purchased in February 1918 by 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/73824 PEOPLE ------------------- figures SUBJECTS ------------------- buildings landscape buildings landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the underside of the foot appearing pale beige. Painted in greyish-blue, dark green, yellow, dark yellow, orange, brown, and manganese. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1726 - 1781 creation date earliest: 1726 creation date latest: 1781 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Grue, Nicolò Tommaso DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 52.3 CITATIONS -------- 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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_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_263_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_263_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_263_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_263_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_263_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_263_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_263_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_263_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_263_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels