IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76141 accession number: C.81-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse cream with speckles and patches of beige, and on the base, an area tinged green. Painted in bright blue, pale green, yellow, pale greenish-brown, and opaque white. Shape 58. Circular with wide uneven rim and deep narrow well. In the middle, below an abbot's mitre, there is a shield of `Tuscan' form, charged with the arms azure a fess argent impaling vert a bend azure charged with three mullets separated by F and S, in chief, clasped hands, in base, a bird in a tree within a scrolled frame flanked by ribbons. The rim has a blue ground decorated in reserve with, at the top, a winged cherub's head over a garland flanked by cornucopiae; on the left, a trophy inscribed `SPQR' and on the right, another dated `1529'; below on each side, monsters with leonine heads and curling tails which link up at the bottom to form fleshy strapwork. Ribbons and leaves are scratched through the blue ground between these motifs. object type: Maiolica bowl with broad rim. Painted in polychrome, in the middle, with an abbot's coat-of-arms. The rim is decorated with grotesques, trophies and the date 1529. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76141 PEOPLE ------------------- putto SUBJECTS ------------------- shield coat-of-arms garland cornucopia mitre shield coat-of-arms garland cornucopia mitre TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse cream with speckles and patches of beige, and on the base, an area tinged green. Painted in bright blue, pale green, yellow, pale greenish-brown, and opaque white. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1529 - 1529 creation date earliest: 1529 creation date latest: 1529 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_81_1961.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_81_1961.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_81_1961.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_81_1961.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels