IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76242 accession number: C.86-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 24 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 78 with a groove around the edge of the foot. Circular with shallow upturned sides and flat centre, standing on a low foot. The Judgement of Paris. Venus, Juno and Minerva stand beside a gnarled tree on the left, accompanied by Cupid who tugs at Venus' drapery as she extends her left arm to receive the apple of discord from Paris, seated at the base of a rocky cliff on the right. He holds a crook upside down in his left hand and offers Venus the apple with his right. In the foreground there is grass and a tree stump; in the background, the sea shore and a hill town. Suspended from the branch of a tree growing out of the rocks above Paris, there is a shield of Tuscan form bearing the arms vert, a fess or, a chief party per pale gules (shown orange) and argent two rosettes counterchanged flanked by `Eli:' and `PYA'. The edge is yellow. The reverse is inscribed in dark blue near the edge with 'IVDITIVM PARIDIS.MANET ALTA MENTE REPOSITVM' and in the centre '.1531.Per cui Troia superba fu/combusta./Favola./Fra(n)cesco Xanto,Avelli da/Rovigo,i Urbino/pi(n)se. object type: Maiolica shallow dish on low foot. Painted in polychrome with The Judgement of Paris. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: For the first two possible owners, see Documentation, Poole, 2003, p. 94. Perhaps Girolamo Talpa (1654-1739), San Severino (Marche), and sold by him in 1712 to Cardinal Filippo Antonio Gualtieri (1670-1728); perhaps Charles Jarvis or Jervas (1675-1739) or Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753); by descent to Andrew Fountaine IV; his heir; Christie's, 16 June 1884, Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels . . ., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk, lot 175; M. Colnaghi. Stephenson Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke. 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, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76242 PEOPLE ------------------- Paris Cupid Venus Minerva SUBJECTS ------------------- apple tree landscape The Judgement of Paris apple tree landscape The Judgement of Paris TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1531 - 1531 creation date earliest: 1531 creation date latest: 1531 culture: 16th Century, second quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Xanto: Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels, carvings in ivory, hone stone and rock crystal, Greek and Roman coins, ancient armour &c. &c., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk Maiolica The Fountaine collection of maiolica Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Identification of Maiolica from Sanseverino Xanto, Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_86_1961_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_86_1961_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_86_1961_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_86_1961_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_86_1961_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 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