IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79249 accession number: C.63-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 27 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse severely crazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese. Circular with shallow curved sides, standing on a narrow ring foot.(Poole 1995, Shape 77) A bust of a female warrior faces in profile to left, wearing a fantastic parade helmet in the shape of a crouching lion-like beast. Her name, `MA/RTA B'(Bella) is inscribed on a scroll arched over her head. The background and rim are blue. object type: maiolica dish standing on a low foot, painted in polychrome, with a bust of a female warrior named MARTA B(ELLA) on a scroll title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: M. & R. Stora, ( Maurice (1879-1950) and Raphaël (1887-1963), 32 bis, Boulevard Hausmann, Paris, from whom purchased in 1920 by F. Leverton Harris (1864-1926) LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79249 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- helmet helmet TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse severely crazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Castel Durante potter maker: Unidentified Urbino potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- The Leverton Harris Collection Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Majolika. Spanische und Italienische Keramik vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band VI Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux The Robert Lehman Collection X Italian Majolica Majolique, La faïence italienne au temps des humanistes 1480-1530 Italian Maiolica and Other Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery 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_63_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 733 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_63_1927.jpg height: 518 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_63_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 733 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_63_1927.jpg height: 259 pixels width: 250 pixels