IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 78876 accession number: C.4-1965 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, moulded in relief and tin-glazed overall. The design is outlined in blue and reserved in a dark blue ground. The reverse is painted in blue and green. Shape approximately 70 but deeper. Circular with a flat rim; wide shallow well with a slightly convex boss in the centre. On the boss, encircled by wavy ribbon, is a half-length figure of a young woman, full face, her head inclined to her left. She has long wavy hair falling over her left shoulder, a high-waisted dress with a knot-like jewel on the front, and a cloak loosely draped round her shoulders. The sides are decorated in relief with radiating grotesques, comprising pairs of dolphins with scroll tails, pairs of winged sea horses and winged beasts with female heads addorsed, winged putto's heads, and grotesque masks flanked by dragons. On the rim, there are bunches of fruit, flowers, acorns and foliage with pairs of tendrils between them incised through the ground. The back is edged by twenty wavy-edged leaves outlined in blue (one smaller than the others), reserved in a green ground. object type: tin-glazed earthenware with relief decoration, painted in blue with a half-length figure of a woman, grotesques, and fruit, flowers, acorns and foliage. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Baron Gustave de Rothschild; by descent to his grandson, Baron Henri Lambert; Baroness Lambert; New York, Parke-Bernet, 7 March 1941, Superb Italian majolica, Palissy ware, silver, Gothic and Renaissance objects of art, two important Beauvais tapestries, comprising masterpieces from the collection of the late Baron Gustave De Rothschild, now the property by inheritance of Baroness Lambert, New York, . . ., lot 106; Dr Robert Bak; Sotheby's, 7 December 1965, Catalogue of a highly important collection of early Italian maiolica formed by Dr Bak of New York, lot 56. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Cunliffe Fund and University Purchase Grant. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/78876 PEOPLE ------------------- woman grotesque putto SUBJECTS ------------------- winged sea horse winged horse dolphin dragon fruit flowers foliage acorn winged sea horse winged horse dolphin dragon fruit flowers foliage acorn TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, moulded in relief and tin-glazed overall. The design is outlined in blue and reserved in a dark blue ground. The reverse is painted in blue and green. moulding in relief TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1530 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of a highly important collection of early Italian maiolica formed by Dr Bak of New York Italian maiolica of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1965 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ---