IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76197 accession number: C.83-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 24 January 2019 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. Shape 57, the underside of the rim moulded with three shallow concentric grooves. Circular with a broad, almost flat rim and small, deep well. 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 C . 'de et Scilla/Il parlameto./fabula y' (Of Cupid 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 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: http://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: 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 --- 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