IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73914 accession number: C.269-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black.Waisted albarello with short neck and sloping shoulders, tapering slightly towards the projecting base. The front is decorated with an oval panel containing a bust of a woman wearing a striped cap, in profile to left, reserved in a blue ground. On the other side is an oval panel containing a nude infant boy holding a windmill, standing in grass. Both panels are framed by yellow half-leaves and are separated by stylised scrolling foliage and yellow flowers. The shoulder and the area above the base are decorated with black scrolls on a yellow ground. `L 2/4' is incised into the base. object type: Renaissance maiolica pharmacy jar, painted in polychrome with, on the front, a bust of a woman and, on the back, a nude infant boy holding a windmill. title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 45; 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73914 PEOPLE ------------------- woman boy SUBJECTS ------------------- windmill foliage landscape windmill foliage landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- Reddish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior and exterior; base unglazed. Painted in bright blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, brownish-orange, and black. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1530 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 CITATIONS -------- Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim 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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_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_269_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels