IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76971
accession number:	EC.4-1937

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 7 June 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76971

PEOPLE
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Phaeton
David
Goliath

SUBJECTS
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chariot
sun
torch
horse (animal)
sky
chariot
sun
torch
horse (animal)
sky



TECHNIQUES
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Yellowish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, a little manganese-purple, black, and white.
tin-glazing
TECHNIQUES
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painting

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1545 - 1560
creation date earliest:	1545
creation date latest:	1560
culture:	16th Century, Mid
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified
maker: Veneziano, Agostino

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 13

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de feu M. Rattier
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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