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Potter: Unknown
Maiolica dish on high foot, painted in polychrome with a bust of a woman.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple.
Shape 84. Circular with upturned edge, standing on a domed foot.
A bust of a blonde woman, three-quarter face. She has a flower and a bow on top of her head, an orange necklace, and a decolleté gown with a drape looped up on the right shoulder. The background is stippled in yellow over green. Extending on each side of her head is a blue ribbon inscribed `ELISAB/ETA.B' in manganese-purple. Round the edge there are two narrow orange bands, and a brown band over a wider yellow band.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Diameter: 25.5 cm
Height: 6.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple and brown)
Foot
Diameter 9.5 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and a little manganese-purple and brown.
Accession number: C.266-1991
Primary reference Number: 73871
Packing number: EURCER 390
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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