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Production: Unidentified Seville factory
Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy overall and painted in blue, yellow, and orange. Circular with a wide sloping rim, and deep curved well, with three spur marks in the middle. In the well, within two narrow blue concentric circles, there is a bust of a man wearing a helmet, facing in profile to left towards two flowers on a stalk. The rim is decorated with a border of curving stems of foliage and flowers with a dotted background between narrow blue bands.
History note: Unknown before testator, Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950; The Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 33 cm
Height: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, Late
Circa
1575
CE
-
1600
CE
This dish belongs to a series with dotted grounds (serie punteada)
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, yellow, and orange)
creamy-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed creamy-white, and painted in blue, yellow, and orange high-temperature colours
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: green rectangular strip
Accession number: C.300-1991
Primary reference Number: 74304
Packing number: EURCER 127
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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