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Workshop: Patanazzi family (Probably)
Maiolica dish with broad rim. Painted in polychrome with, in the middle the Madonna and infant Christ, surrounded on the side of the well and the rim by a shield, putti, grotesques, and cameos.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, white, and grey. Shape 59 with wider rim. Circular with broad, sloping rim and wide, deep well, standing on a footring.
In the middle, encircled by simulated beading, the Madonna sits on a bank of clouds with the infant Christ standing on her knee. On the side of the well are two putti separated by grotesques and above, a band of yellow and orange simulated beading. The rim is decorated with grotesques and cameos interrupted at the top by a cartouche containing an oval shield charged with the arms bendy or and azure, ensigned by a cross and a green hat, and flanked by three rows of green tassels. The yellow edge is decorated with orange, brown and white petals. The back is encircled by yellow bands: two on the footring, one outside it, three at the shoulder, and two by the edge.
History note: Probably Girolamo Talpa (1754-1739),San Severino (Marche); sold by him to Cardinal Filippo Antonio gualtieri (1770-1728), Orvieto and Rome. 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 198; M. Colnaghi. Stephenson Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke.
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960
Diameter: 33.4 cm
Height: 5.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
16th Century, Late
17th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Production date:
circa
AD 1600
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, white, and grey)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, white, and grey.
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Inscription present: small rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.90-1961
Primary reference Number: 76333
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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