IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79986 accession number: C.134-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 26 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; on the reverse, where visible, the glaze is pale cream. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Circular with shallow, curved sides and flat centre. On the underside there are two concentric ribs surrounding the junction with the foot, now missing. The Crossing of the Red Sea. On the right Pharoah, seated in front of his camp, raises his right arm angrily at Moses standing on the opposite shore of the Red Sea. The Children of Israel cross safely in a long procession from right to left while, in the right foreground, the Egyptian forces are prevented from following by the piled-up waves. The yellow rim is decorated with brown-outlined petals with white centres. On the back, five putti fly above clouds, four holding branches and one a drape. The outer rib is surrounded by petals with black centres, outlined in orange-brown on a yellow ground, flanked by diagonal strokes. The yellow rim is decorated with orange petals. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome, with the Crossing of the Red Sea. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Grand Ducal Collection, Florence before 1784. Uncertain. Alfred Aaron De Pass (1861-1952), Falmouth 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, 1933, in memory of his son, Crispin (d. 1918). STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79986 PEOPLE ------------------- Medici Collection Moses Pharoah putto SUBJECTS ------------------- tent horse (animal) sea Red Sea The Crossing of the Red Sea tent horse (animal) sea Red Sea The Crossing of the Red Sea TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, tin-glazed overall; on the reverse, where visible, the glaze is pale cream. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1555 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1555 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century, third quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Fontana, Orazio maker: Patanazzi, Antonio maker: Salomon, Bernard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- The De Pass pottery in the Fitzwilliam Museum Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Un capolavoro della maiolica istoriata rinascimentale alla Courtauld Gallery: 'La Crocifissione Gambier Parry' Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi toscani Maioliche urbinati dal Fontana ai Patanazzi Italian Maiolica in the Gambier-Parry Collection Ceramiche nelle civiche collezioni bresciane Italian Maiolica and Other Modern Ceramics in the Courtauld Gallery La maiolica nel Museo del Bargello. Genesi e fortuna di una roccolta Battista Franco as a designer for maiolica ---