IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76197
accession number:	C.83-1961

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Circular with a broad, almost flat rim and small, deep well. The underside of the rim is moulded with three shallow concentric grooves. (Poole 1995, Shape 57), Scylla, Cupid and four Nymphs bathing. On the right, Scylla reclines on a bank beside a massive rock formation. She holds a wand in her right hand. On the left, four nymphs holding long horns stand in a pool. Above, Cupid, holding a flaming torch, flies towards Scylla. In the foreground there is grass; in the background, landscape with a town and mountains. The outer edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: `Di Car   'de et Scilla/Il parlameto./fabula y' (Of Car    de and Scilla The conversation [?]. fable y).
object type: Maiolica bowl with broad rim, painted in polychrome with Scylla, Cupid and four Nymphs bathing.
title:	bowl with broad rim

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Louis C.G. Clarke, LL.D. (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge


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
collection:	Louis C. G. Clarke
creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76197

PEOPLE
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Scylla
Cupid
nymph

SUBJECTS
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torch
bathing
grass
mountains
town
torch
bathing
grass
mountains
town



TECHNIQUES
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Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1528 - 1531
creation date earliest:	1528
creation date latest:	1531
culture:	second quarter of 16th century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 26.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica
Francesco Xanto Avelli's Pucci Service (1532-1533): Part Two
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