IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75032
accession number:	C.42-1931

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 25 August 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed pale blue overall. Painted in dark blue, yellow, orange, and white. Shape 54 (Poole 1995) but less convex in the middle. The central medallion contains a blue rosette within a yellow twelve-pointed figure, the spaces between the points filled with orange dotted in white. The sides of the well are painted in white with stylised foliage. The rim is decorated with grotesques reserved in a dark blue ground: winged cherubs' heads, dolphins, cornucopiae, shells, and scrolls. On the back is a crossed circle with a small circle in one quarter, surrounded by two concentric circles. The well and rim are decorated with four rosettes separated by radial squiggles. Pairs of bands encircle the base and outer edge.
object type: Maiolica plate, painted in blue, yellow, orange and white, with a twelve-pointed figure, surrounded by grotesques, heads, shells, dolphins, and scrolls.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd, London


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: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75032

PEOPLE
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grotesque
cherubs

SUBJECTS
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cornucopia
dolphin
cornucopia
dolphin



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed lavender-blue overall; the reverse uneven and with numerous pin holes. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, green, and white.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1515 - 1530
creation date earliest:	1515
creation date latest:	1530
culture:	16th Century, Early#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 24.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
The Golden Age of Maiolica-Painting. Catalogue of a Private Collection
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