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The Queen of Sheba listening to the Wisdom of Solomon
Workshop: Durantino, Guido
Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with The Queen of Sheba listening to the Wisdom of Solomon.
Plate. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green in two areas. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese, black, and white.
Shape 56, the underside of the outer edge moulded with two concentric grooves. Circular with wide, slightly sloping rim and deep well.
The Queen of Sheba listening to the Wisdom of Solomon. On the left, Solomon, holding a sceptre in both hands, is enthroned beneath a canopy. The Queen of Sheba and two female attendants each holding vases, kneel before him. Behind them there is a broken-off column, a building and a group of trees. Further back there is another broken-off column on a pedestal, and beyond, a landscape with mountains. In the foreground there are steps. The back is inscribed in the middle in bright blue, `La Reina Sabba/Ande adudire la sa/pientia d Salomone /nella botega d Mo Guido/ durâtino jn Vrbino' (The Queen of Sheba goes to listen to the wisdom of Solomon in the workshop of Maestro Guido durantino in Urbino). There are single yellow bands round the base and shoulder, two round the rim, and one on the edge.
History note: Lord Philipp Currie; Rome, Galerie G. Sangiorgi, 30 April 1903, Collection de S.E. Lord Philipp Currie ex-Ambassador d'Angleterre à Rome, faïences italiennes, lot 345 & pl. 24; His Excellency M. Gaston Carlin, Swiss Minister in London; Christie's, 14 July 1921, Catalogue of old English furniture and Oriental porcelain, the property of a gentleman, old Italian majolica, the property of his Excellency M. Carlin, late Swiss Minister in London, lot 119; W.J.H. Whittall; Sotheby's, 18 April 1947, lot 44; Alfred Spero; Marmaduke Langdale Horn (1889-1953).
M.L. Horn Bequest
Diameter: 28.2 cm
Height: 4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1953-10-22) by Horn, Marmaduke Langdale
16th Century
Renaissance
Production date:
circa
AD 1535
: This date is given because of the plate's similarity to dishes dated 1535 from the Montemorency and Duprat services
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese, black, and white)
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green in two areas. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular
Inscription present: rectangular
Accession number: C.17-1953
Primary reference Number: 80067
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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