15929966580001312637261000Standard Recordobject-79249170678015255617063693490001706780144500fitz-onlineadlib-object-79249https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/792492a21072c-7147-300a-89bd-ad08af76a9c35personreferenceagent-149742adlib-agent-1497421d4d164f-45d5-3cec-ad71-bbc83cea9b86womanreferenceterm-108348adlib-term-108348667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02fftin-glazed earthenwarereferenceterm-42865adlib-term-4286592be1d50-bb1c-3472-950f-b140ee6cdde9maiolicablue, green, yellow, orange, and manganesereferenceterm-108364adlib-term-108364115b8729-a560-35c1-b654-4b9d2fc5f68bhigh-temperature coloursDecorationreferenceterm-106226adlib-term-106226194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815paintingApplied Artsmaiolica dish standing on a low foot, painted in polychrome, with a bust of a female warrior named MARTA B(ELLA) on a scrollBuff 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.no cataloguereferenceexhibition-1605adlib-exhibition-160504d3c358-0bef-3d8f-8df5-14f16987ac1bItalian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam MuseumC.63-19271accession numberC.63-192779249priref79249urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79249https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79249MA separated by the helmet from RTA B on scroll over woman's headon scroll on frontpainted in blueMARTA Binscriptionor 602on the basein blue, after firing662numberreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumF. Leverton Harris Bequestreferenceagent-151483adlib-agent-15148326fbb332-a159-3961-80ad-ff1bd1a618c2Harris, Frederick Leverton192719271927bequeathed15201520CE1520circa1520153011530CE15301530possiblypotterreferenceagent-188372adlib-agent-1883724dfc899a-4c0b-3632-ba5e-a63bbbfaef42Unidentified Castel Durante potterpossiblypotterreferenceagent-188373adlib-agent-188373a417bfc7-7595-3146-8bab-43ca46b53f2aUnidentified Urbino potterDishes decorated with heads of women or men, have traditionally been attributed to Castel Durante, but may equally well have been made in Urbino. This is one of a small group decorated with young women wearing elaborate parade helmets. The only dated example, of 1522, is in the Museo Civico, Pesaro. Inscribed `FAVSTINA', it differs from the rest of the group in having a border of bound leaves and fruits. The others are `DEIDAMIA' in the Kunstgewerbe¬museum, Berlin.`BRADAMANTE BEL' at the Ceramic Museum at Sèvres, and later, and painted in a different style, `MARFISA' in the Museo Internationale delle Ceramiche at Faenza.
Closely related to Deidamia is a small group of dishes with girls wearing visor-like headdresses and a cloth snood enclosing their hair at the back of their head: `CARENDINA' in the Lehman collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, `TARSIA B [Bella]' in the Gambier¬-Parry collec¬tion at the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, and `PHILOMENA' in the Metropolitan Museum. The Fitzwilliam Museum's MARTA B' differs from all these in having an extremely long and slender neck, a zoomorphic helmet as opposed to one decorated with grotesque masks, wings or shell-like coils, and an arched name scroll instead of a coiling ribbon passing behind her shoulders. In this respect it resembles two dishes decorated with heads of men wearing Saracen-style helmets and having an arched scroll over their head bearing their name, 'CATELINA' and 'SANSONE'. There are several further dishes decorated with men wearing parade helmets with their names on scrolls below, including SCANDERBECH in the Musée des Arts décoratifs Lyon, and CORNELIO in the Louvre.referenceterm-106602adlib-term-106602bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e16th Centuryreferenceterm-10618adlib-term-106189ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136Renaissancereferenceterm-113124adlib-term-1131249cb3d1b6-4d7f-31d1-9896-a75256a6780aliteralItalyItalycountryliteralThe MarchesThe MarchesregionCastel Durantereferenceterm-110708adlib-term-110708ef038505-1555-3c61-b6e2-cadcedf6c42aliteralItalyItalycountryliteralThe MarchesThe MarchesregionUrbinoreferenceterm-39575adlib-term-39575cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4abtin-glazereferenceterm-42861adlib-term-428615b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956cearthenwareDiametercm24Heightcm4.8referencemedia-52750adlib-media-52750a979799f-3d43-3d1b-a400-8b8c36e947f6jpegaa/aa19/C_63_1927.jpg1heightpixels760widthpixels73316162713789171imagejpegaa/aa19/mid_C_63_1927.jpg1heightpixels518widthpixels50016162713789171imagejpegaa/aa19/C_63_1927.jpg1heightpixels760widthpixels73316162713789171imagejpegaa/aa19/preview_C_63_1927.jpg1heightpixels259widthpixels25016162713789171image0media
imagereferenceterm-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish standing on low foothistory noteM. & 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)referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreferencepublication-1569adlib-publication-15694825b83f-3a92-3c6d-b58b-2686ea0509e0The Leverton Harris CollectionPubl. pp. 296-7, no. 366, where other dishes decorated with male or female heads wearing helmets are listed. Colour Plate 38pp. 296-7referencepublication-3010adlib-publication-3010e3e61863-a797-3051-8d0a-20288306ca36Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum CambridgePubl. pp. 60-1, no. 2560-1referencepublication-3378adlib-publication-3378e4a41d6d-c98c-3959-bcb4-041c12eeb88cFitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian MaiolicaCf. pp. 239-43, no. 175, a shallow bowl or dish, with a profile head of a female warrior wearing a parade helmet, with the name DEIDAMIA on a scroll below. The author lists further examples on p. 239.239-43referencepublication-1626adlib-publication-16265b3b0632-26d4-3992-8fdd-82f5ec43e259Majolika. Spanische und Italienische Keramik vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band VICf. p. 244-5, no. 800, a bust of female warrior wearing a parade helmet in profile to left named BRADAMANTE BEL on a scroll below, in the Musée de la Céramique, Sèvres; p. 244-5, no. 799, a male warrior in profile to right wearing a parade helmet, named CORNELIO on a scroll below in the Louvre. Both attributed to Casteldurante.244-5referencepublication-1574adlib-publication-1574159ac368-4d4c-3d0c-a949-566b288054c6Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationauxCf. pp. 104-106, no. 63 a dish with a bust of a woman wearing a visa-like headdress in profile to right with the name CARENDINA on a scroll below. See Appendix I, pp. 244-5, figs. 63.1-12, illustrations of dishes with male and female heads wearing parade helmets, or visor-like headdresses. On p. 245, fig. 63.10 is CATELINA, who wears a saracen style helmet and has his name on a scroll over his head like the Fitzwilliam's MARTA B.104-106referencepublication-3377adlib-publication-3377e960b292-06f9-36c2-82f2-4a2c334f1804The Robert Lehman Collection X Italian MajolicaCf. p. 80, no. 34, CORNELIO in the Louvre (inv. OA 1745); p. 81 no. 35, TARSIA B in the Courtauld Gallery, London (inv. O 1966 GP 88); no. 36 SCANDERBECH in the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Lyon (inv. no. 1718)81referencepublication-8945adlib-publication-89459af956eb-b189-300f-96c4-6f5724ebad10Majolique, La faïence italienne au temps des humanistes 1480-1530Cf. pp. 161-4, no. 31, shallow bowl decorated with the head and shoulders of a girl in profile wearing a visor-like headdress with TARSIA B on a scroll below, probably referring to the King's daughter in the classical Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre. In note 15 the author cites two examples of 16th century women named Tarsia, one in Castel Durante and the other in Ferrara.161-4referencepublication-8943adlib-publication-894329e4cc2a-e0e8-3153-be27-f107624f1cd0Italian Maiolica and Other Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld GalleryCf. pp. 164-5, no. 50 a shallow bowl decorated with the head of a man in profile wearing a helmet, title RVGGIERO. Inv. no. 1965.65.67pp. 164-5referencepublication-8274adlib-publication-82747be4693f-9344-330a-8733-2ca7558ee846Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Artreferenceterm-10618adlib-term-106189ebc0ae1-8cf8-312b-832c-9cf44da02136Renaissanceobject namereferenceterm-75231adlib-term-7523129e4fe09-c40b-3c6e-b4b6-72cde48a1ff8helmetliteralhelmethelmetreferenceterm-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdishbuff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse severely crazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese.referenceterm-120059adlib-term-120059dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7tin-glazingobject
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