IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79940 accession number: C.80-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and speckled. A small area on the base has crawled, revealing cream fabric. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, dark brown, grey, black, and white; red, silvery-yellow, and on the back, pale yellow lustre. Shape approximately 55 but much shallower, with two concentric grooves under the outer edge. Circular with wide rim and shallow depression in the centre. The Rape of Europa. On the upper left of the rim, Zeus sits on a cloud, accompanied by an eagle. On the right there is a tree, in front of which is a recumbent bull with Europa on its back, placing a garland of flowers round its horns. Opposite there are three cows, two of whom look towards Europa. In the middle she is represented again, being carried out to sea on the bull's back. In the landscape background there are rows of bushes and a city. The middle of the back is dated `1524' in yellow lustre, surrounded by three loose foliated scrolls alternating with three foliated sprays. The edge is yellow. object type: Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with The Rape of Europa. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robert Napier from at least 1859 to 1877; Christie's, 5 June 1877, Catalogue of the celebrated assemblage of works of art and vertu known as the Shandon Collection, formed during the last half-century by that well-known amateur Robert Napier, Esq. deceased, late of Glasgow, lot 2660, sold to Wetterhan. Durlacher Bros, London, from whom purchased by F. Leverton Harris. 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/79940 PEOPLE ------------------- Europa Zeus Atalanta SUBJECTS ------------------- garland bull (animal) eagle cloud landscape city sea The Rape of Europa garland bull (animal) eagle cloud landscape city sea The Rape of Europa TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and speckled. A small area on the base has crawled, revealing cream fabric. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, dark brown, grey, black, and white; red, silvery-yellow, and on the back, pale yellow lustre. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1524 - 1524 creation date earliest: 1524 creation date latest: 1524 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli maker: uncertain DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the 'Majolica' or Ancient Italian Painted Pottery in the Collection of Robert Napier Esq., of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire Catalogue of the Works of Art forming the Collection of Robert Napier of West Shandon, Dumbartonshire Catalogue of the celebrated assemblage of works of art and vertu known as the Shandon Collection, formed during the last half-century by that well-known amateur Robert Napier, Esq. deceased, late of Glasgow, 4-7 June 1877 Maiolica Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris, II Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - III Corpus della maiolica italiana, I, Le maioliche datate al l530 Guide to the European Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 'The maiolica-painter Guido Durantino' Italian Maiolica The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain Die Verführung der Europa Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_80_1927.jpg height: 758 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_80_1927.jpg height: 499 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_80_1927.jpg height: 758 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_80_1927.jpg height: 249 pixels width: 250 pixels