IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76299 accession number: C.89-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is slightly uneven, and shows the fabric where it is thinly applied. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, a little manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Shape 59. Circular with broad, slightly sloping rim and broad, deep well, standing on a footring. The central medallion shows the Muse Terpsichore standing in profile to right playing a harp, in a landscape encircled by simulated beading. On the sides of the well, at top and bottom, there is a winged herm, flanked by seated putti holding branches, and on the left and right, pairs of bears addorsed. The shoulder is encircled by two yellow bands flanking a wider yellow band with orange radial strokes. The rim is decorated with grotesques and pseudo-gems. On the edge there are narrow and wide yellow bands decorated with orange and white radial lines with blue rectangles between each pair. The back is encircled by yellow bands: one wide and one narrow outside the footring, one wide between two narrow at the shoulder, and one narrow and one wide on the outer edge. object type: Maiolica dish painted in polychrome with the Muse Terpsichore in the central medallion, surrounded by grotesques on the sides and rim. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Andrew Fountaine IV; his heir; Christie's, 17 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 156; Prof. Hermann. Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, the first portion; 19-20 July 1939, the second and final portion, lot 74; Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D, Leckhampton, Cambridge 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/76299 PEOPLE ------------------- Terpsichore winged herms putti faun SUBJECTS ------------------- harp landscape harp landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is slightly uneven, and shows the fabric where it is thinly applied. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, a little manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1580 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1580 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Patanazzi family DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 27.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum 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 Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich The Fountaine collection of maiolica Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Una famiglia di ceramisti urbinati: i Patanazzi --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_89_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_89_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_89_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_89_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_89_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_89_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_89_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_89_1961_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels