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Phaeton in the Chariot of the Sun
Unidentified
(Maker)
After
Veneziano, Agostino
(Engraver)
Maiolica cover or small plate, painted in polychrome, with Phaeton in the Chariot of the Sun.
Yellowish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, a little manganese-purple, black, and white. Circular with a narrow, flat rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring.
Phaeton in the Chariot of the Sun. He stands, holding a flaming torch in his left hand, his right arm raised to catch a drapery which swirls around him and over his head. The chariot is drawn through clouds by four spirited, cavorting horses: Pyroïs, Eoüs, Aethon, and Phlegon. The sky is yellow. On the base, a nude warrior (probably David) has just beheaded another (probably Goliath), whose elderly, bearded head lies in the foreground. Outside the footring there is a frieze of struggling male nudes.
History note: Adrien-Joseph Rattier; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 21-24 March 1859, Catalogue des objects d'art et de haute curiosité de feu M. Rattier, lot 50. Charles Ricketts, RA (1866-1931), and Charles H. Shannon, RA (1863-1937)
C.H. Shannon Bequest
Diameter: 13.0 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1937-04-07)
by
Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Mid 16th century
Renaissance
Circa
1545
CE
-
1560
CE
The source of the design was the engraving of Phaeton by Agostino Veneziano, perhaps after Raphael.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, a little manganese-purple, black, and white)
Tin-glazing : Yellowish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, a little manganese-purple, black, and white.
Painting
Accession number: EC.4-1937
Primary reference Number: 76971
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Accession Number: 3050
Accession Number: E.GA.3137.1943
Accession Number: 3400
Accession Number: C.88-1932
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