IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79091 accession number: C.2204-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Panel. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and parts of the outer edge. There is a large fault in the glaze on the left side of the Virgin. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-brown. Rectangular. The Virgin stands with her hands clasped, wearing a billowing robe. Above her head is a halo composed of twelve stars and beneath her feet there is a serpent and a crescent moon. The background is yellow. On either side of her is an inscription in blue Roman capitals: `MARIA MATER MISERI CORDIAE 1744' (Mary Mother of Mercy). The edge is bordered by an orange scalloped line, a straight line, and linked S-scrolls. The back is inscribed in black, `.G.M./M/P.'. object type: Maiolica panel of The Virgin as Queen of Heaven, painted in blue, yellow, orange, and brown. title: panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Roger Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchased on 21 January 1925 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £4.10.0 (MS Cat. 4469). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79091 PEOPLE ------------------- Virgin Mary SUBJECTS ------------------- moon serpent moon serpent CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1744 - 1744 creation date earliest: 1744 creation date latest: 1744 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 3.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 25.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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/C_2204_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2204_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2204_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2204_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels