IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75499 accession number: C.55-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 17 November 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse is pale beige and has crawled near the lower edge. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Shape 64, with three faint concentric grooves under the edge. Circular with a narrow rim and wide flat centre; the base uneven. Horatius Cocles holding the Bridge against the Etruscans. On the right, three men are breaking down the bridge with picks. In the middle, Horatius, mounted on a rearing charger, brandishes his sword at a group of ten attackers. Below the bridge, there is another mounted Roman, whose horse's rump has been pierced by an arrow fired by a bowman on the left. Both he and Horatius bear shields charged with the arms per fess argent and azure the base of a column proper. In the foreground there are rocks, a broken-down fence and the river Tiber; in the background to left, the tents of the Etruscan camp, and to right, Rome and distant mountains. The rim is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle, in dark blue: '.M.D.XXXVIII./Vedi su'l pontei trepido, e, feroce/Oratio sol cotra Thoscana tutta/Che ne ferro, e, ne fuoco a vertu nuoce./.Xato.' (Behold on the bridge the intrepid, and, fierce Horatius alone against all the Etruscans Who neither with iron nor fire harm his valour. .Xanto.) A narrow black band and a wider yellow band encircle the edge. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with Horatius Cocles holding the Bridge against the Etruscans. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased in 1920 by F. Leverton Harris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75499 PEOPLE ------------------- Cocles, Horatius Etruscans SUBJECTS ------------------- valour sword arrow shield tent horse (animal) bridge camp mountains river Rome Horatius defending the Bridge valour sword arrow shield tent horse (animal) bridge camp mountains river Rome Horatius defending the Bridge TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse is pale beige and has crawled near the lower edge. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1538 - 1538 creation date earliest: 1538 creation date latest: 1538 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 46 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris, II Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - III Maioliche italiane del Rinascimento Antiche maioliche popolari di Castelli Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Pots, Prints and Politics: Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs- d’oeuvre --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_55_1927_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_55_1927_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_55_1927_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_55_1927_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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