IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79589 accession number: C.21-1995 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, orange, shades of brown, and black; the reverse is pale beige and has several pin holes. Circular with wide sloping rim and shallow curved well, convex in the centre. The front is decorated overall with the Suicide of Hero. In the foreground, Leander lies drowned in water. On the right, a man seated on a rock looks towards him, raising his right arm. On the left, Cupid stands holding a flaming torch. In the background there is an archway inscribed 'AMOR.NE. CAVSA' (Love is the cause of it), the lower part of a tower, and a doorway with a window above. Hero is shown falling from a window in the tower. The edge is encircled by a very narrow black band and a wide yellow band. The back is decorated with a wreath of blue leaves on a continuous wavy stem. The base is inscribed in blue, 'Leandro in Mare &./Hero alla finestra/.61./.S. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased. Given to the vendor's husband by his mother, who bought it an antique shop. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the F. Leverton Harris Fund and the Leonard D. Cunliffe Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79589 PEOPLE ------------------- Hero Leander Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- torch Suicide of Hero torch Suicide of Hero TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue, greyish-green, yellow, orange, shades of brown, and black; the reverse is pale beige and has several pin holes. tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1561 - 1561 creation date earliest: 1561 creation date latest: 1561 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Sforza di Marcantonio maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 30 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.2 CITATIONS -------- The Fitzwilliam Museum Annual Report, 1995 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Recent acquisitions (1995-2004) at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Catalogue of Fine Early Continental Glass, Important Italian Majolica Sforza di Marcantonio: figulo pesarese cinquecentesco Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung Ceramisti pesaresi nei documenti notarili dell'Archivio di Stato di Pesaro sec. XV-XVIII Francesco Xanto Avelli and Petrarch Ceramiche occidentale del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance Tin-glaze and Image Culture: the MAK Maiolica Collection in its Wider Context --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_21_1995.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 748 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_21_1995.jpg height: 508 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_21_1995.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 748 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_21_1995.jpg height: 254 pixels width: 250 pixels