IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79248 accession number: C.79-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange; red and shades of yellow-gold lustre. Shape 50. Circular with slightly sloping rim and shallow depression in the middle, standing on a footring. Mercury, Herse and Aglauros. Mercury stands holding his rod in his left hand, his right extended towards Aglauros who stands in the doorway of the palace. On the left, Herse sits indoors beside a window, resting her head on her right hand. The arch of the window springs from a column decorated with scrolling foliage. On the wall above is a shield charged with the arms party per pale undy azure and or (shown orange) a mullet and a crescent counterchanged. In the foreground there are four pebbles on the path, and in the background to right, rocks and a large expanse of sky. The back is marked in the middle in thick orange-yellow lustre, `1522/.M o .o G' (both o raised). The base is encircled by a wide blue band and a narrow lustre band repeated in reverse order next to the rim. Between these are four crossed lozenges alternating with two spirals between curved strokes and two groups of spots between curved strokes. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware plate, painted on the front in polychrome, with Mercury, Herse and Aglauros. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry T. Hope, Deepdene, Surrey; his daughter, Henrietta Adela Hope, who married in 1861 the Earl of Lincoln, later 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme (1834-1979); by descent to the 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme (1864-1928); sold by Christie's, 7 July 1921, Catalogue of fine old English silver-gilt plate, Limoges enamels, old Italian majolica and porcelain, the property of his grace the Duke of Newcastle, and removed from Clumber, Worksop, lot 120; George A. Lockett; Christie's, 11 June 1942, The choice collection of objects of art and furniture formed by the late George A. Lockett Esq., lot 217; Alfred Spero (£556); from 1943, L.C.G. Clarke, Leckhampton, MA, LL.D., Cambridge (1881-1960) by whom bequeathed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79248 PEOPLE ------------------- Mercury Herse Aglauros SUBJECTS ------------------- house house TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse appearing pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange; red and shades of yellow-gold lustre. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1522 - 1522 creation date earliest: 1522 creation date latest: 1522 culture: 16th Century, Early# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of fine old English silver-gilt plate, Limoges enamels, old Italian majolica and porcelain, the property of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, and removed from Clumber, Worksop The choice collection of objects of art and furniture formed by the late George A. Lockett Esq. A Maestro Giorgio maiolica dish Répertoire de la majolique italienne Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961 Louis Clarke as a Collector Italian maiolica of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Maioliche italiane del Rinascimento Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Leningrad State Hermitage Collection, Italian Maiolica XV-XVIII Centuries The Ford collection of Italian maiolica Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_79_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 732 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_79_1961.jpg height: 519 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_79_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 732 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_79_1961.jpg height: 260 pixels width: 250 pixels