IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76971 accession number: EC.4-1937 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Maiolica cover or small plate, painted in polychrome, with Phaeton in the Chariot of the Sun. title: cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ricketts and Shannon Collection creditline: The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76971 PEOPLE ------------------- Phaeton David Goliath SUBJECTS ------------------- chariot sun torch horse (animal) sky chariot sun torch horse (animal) sky TECHNIQUES ---------- Yellowish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, a little manganese-purple, black, and white. tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1545 - 1560 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1560 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified maker: Veneziano, Agostino DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 13 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de feu M. Rattier Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/EC_4_1937.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_EC_4_1937.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/EC_4_1937.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_EC_4_1937.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels