IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74966
accession number:	C.41-1972

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Wide, saucer-shaped dish on low spool-like foot. The design, on a buff ground which covers the upper surface, shows Jupiter holding the beak of a swan above Leda and the new-born Castor and Pollux, with other figures and a bull, against a background of trees, cliffs and flowing water. The figures are outlined in purple-brown. A thin cream toothed band runs around the rim. The raised foot is decorated with an undulating ivy leaf tendril, between two horizontal bands, all on a buff ground.  The underside of the foot is glazed, with two suspension holes in the upper side.
object type: Pale cream earthenware, painted in shades of brown under clear glaze.
title:	tazza

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read Collection.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bought with the Percival Fund and the Victoria & Albert Museum  Grant in Aid fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74966

PEOPLE
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Ligorio, Pirro
Romano, Giulio
Jupiter
Leda
Castor
Pollux

SUBJECTS
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swan
bull (animal)
egg
swan
bull (animal)
egg



TECHNIQUES
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Pale cream earthenware, painted in shades of brown under clear glaze.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: majolica ware

DATING
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creation date:	1862 - 1862
creation date earliest:	1862
creation date latest:	1862
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Minton & Co.

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 34.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6



CITATIONS
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Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection
Thomas Kirkby: Victorian Ceramic Artist
Minton 1798-1910
Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production
Victorian Pottery
Dictionary of Minton
Minton ‘Majolica’: an historical survey and exhibition catalogue
Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery
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