IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76197 accession number: C.83-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: Unknown before Louis C.G. Clarke, LL.D. (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Louis C. G. Clarke creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76197 PEOPLE ------------------- Scylla Cupid nymph SUBJECTS ------------------- torch bathing grass mountains town torch bathing grass mountains town TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1528 - 1531 creation date earliest: 1528 creation date latest: 1531 culture: second quarter of 16th century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.2 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 Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica Francesco Xanto Avelli's Pucci Service (1532-1533): Part Two --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_83_1961_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_83_1961_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_83_1961_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_83_1961_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_83_1961_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_83_1961_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_83_1961_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_83_1961_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels