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Aaron arrayed in the High Priest's Garments accompanied by Moses and three other Israelites
Workshop:
Fontana Workshop
(Probably)
Woodcutter:
Salomon, Bernard
(After)
Maiolica shallow bowl, painted in polychrome, with Aaron arrayed in the High Priest's Garments accompanied by Moses and three other Israelites.
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and faintly tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 81. Shallow circular bowl with sixteen scallops round the rim and sides moulded with a radiating petal and lozenge pattern, originally standing on a low foot, now missing.
Aaron arrayed in the High Priest's Garments accompanied by Moses and three other Israelites. In the foreground there are rocks, grass and a stony path; further back on the left, a tent; and in the landscape background, two tents, trees and hills. The edge is yellow. On the back, 'Aron gran sacerdote/e Moise' (Aaron high priest and Moses) inscribed in the middle in dark blue, and two yellow bands round the rim.
History note: Probably Conte Ferdinando Pasolini Dall'Onda, Bologna, and/or Robert Napier; Christie's, 6 June 1877, Catalogue of the celebrated assemblage of works of art and vertu known as the Shandon Collection, formed during the last half-century by that well-known amateur Robert Napier, Esq. deceased, late of Glasgow, lot 2793. C.B. Marlay before 1887.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 27.6 cm
Height: 5.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, third quarter#
Renaissance
Circa
1555
CE
-
1575
CE
The figures were taken from the woodcut illustration headed ESOD. XXXIX. in Damiano Maraffi's Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi toscani, Lyon (Jean de Tournes), 1554. The inscription begins with the first three words of the inscription below it.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white)
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and faintly tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: MAR.C.59-1912
Primary reference Number: 77383
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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