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Dish: C.4-1948

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Current Location: In storage

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Potter: Unknown

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Description

Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with grotesques, divided by frames.

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple. Shape 63. Circular with narrow, slightly sloping rim, shallow curved sides and almost flat centre, standing on a low footring.The well is decorated with a symmetrical arrangement of grotesques, divided by four curved yellow frames with orange stripes. On the sides are slanting blue squiggles alternating with vertical strokes and, above and below, a yellow band with orange stripes. The rim is decorated with similar grotesques, separated by pairs of curved frames. The rim is yellow with orange stripes.

Notes

History note: Unknown

Legal notes

Given by P.C. Wilson

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 41.7 cm
Height: 5.6 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1948) by Wilson, Peter C.

Dating

17th Century
Circa 1600 CE - 1650 CE

Note

The dish was accessioned as Urbino, late sixteenth century. However, the form of the grotesques, which terminate in comma-like scrolls filling in the background, indicate that it was more likely to have been made at Deruta during the first half of the seventeenth century.

School or Style

Mannerist

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.4-1948
Primary reference Number: 75008

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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