IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79244 accession number: C.104-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 October 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale yellowish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse, pale beige. Painted in blue and pale green, and with red and yellowish-gold lustre. Shape approximately 58. Circular with a broad, gently sloping rim and deep well; flat base. The central medallion, edged with red lustre and blue circles, contains a shield of broad testa di cavallo form charged with the arms azure a tower argent debruised by a bend gules. The side of the well is gold overall, and the symmetrically arranged grotesques on the rim are reserved in a gold ground. At the top is a mask with a vase of fruit above it and, at the bottom, a winged putto's head above fruit in a bowl decorated alla porcellana, linked by fruit-filled cornucopiae to two monsters who crouch on the right and left. Two narrow blue bands encircle the outer edge. On the back, the base and shoulder are encircled by a wide and a narrow band of gold lustre, repeated in reverse order on the outer edge. object type: Maiolica bowl with broad rim, painted in blue and green, and red and gold lustre with a coat of arms, (Di Bate of Florence?) and grotesques title: bowl with broad rim NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alexander Barker; Sir Francis Cook, Bt; Wyndham Francis Cook; Humphrey Wyndham Cook; Christie's, 7 July 1925, Catalogue of an important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the property of Humphrey W. Cook, Esq., and removed from 8 Cadogan Square, S.W., being a portion of the celebrated collection formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart, lot 25; F. Leverton Harris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: F. Leverton Harris creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79244 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms shield coat-of-arms shield TECHNIQUES ---------- pale yellowish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse, pale beige. Painted in blue and pale green, and with red and yellowish-gold lustre. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1521 - 1521 creation date earliest: 1521 creation date latest: 1521 culture: 16th Century, Early culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Italian Majolica and other Pottery at 8 Cadogan Square Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - III The Leverton Harris Collection Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux The Robert Lehman Collection X Italian Majolica Musée du Petit Palais, Catalogue de Céramiques I, Hispano-Mauresques, majoliques italiennes, Iznik, des collections Dutuit, Ocampo et Pierre Marie Ceramiche occidentale del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna Catalogue des faïences anciennes, Musée des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure Rothschild Masterpieces: The Kunstkammer ---