IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79980 accession number: C.133-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse pale beige, unevenly distributed and tinged with green in several places. There are eight minor flaws in the upper surface. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Shape 57. Circular with a wide, almost flat rim and small, deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with three bands of reeding. The Contest between Apollo and Pan. On the left, Pan sits on a tree stump holding his pipes. Apollo stands on the right, looking away from his adversary and holding a bow and a lira da braccio. There is a small tree behind Pan and a taller one in the middle. Suspended between their branches, there is a shield of Tuscan form charged with the arms azure, three crescents addorsed argent (one above and two below). In the foreground there is a path, and in the background, a hill town in a landscape. The edge is yellow. On the back, two yellow bands encircle the edge. object type: Maiolica bowl with broad rim, painted in polychrome with The Contest between Apollo and Pan. title: bowl with broad rim LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Alfred A. De Pass STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79980 PEOPLE ------------------- Pan Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- pan pipes lyra da braccio coat-of-arms tree landscape The Contest between Apollo and Pan pan pipes lyra da braccio coat-of-arms tree landscape The Contest between Apollo and Pan TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse pale beige, unevenly distributed and tinged with green in several places. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1530 - 1530 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1530 culture: 16th Century, second quarter culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Milan Marsyas Painter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: 'I turned it into a palace', Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- The De Pass pottery in the Fitzwilliam Museum Xanto: i suoi compagni e seguaci Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum Urbino - Venice, Italian Renaissance Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_133_1933.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 744 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_133_1933.jpg height: 511 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_133_1933.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 744 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_133_1933.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels