IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80105 accession number: C.85-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse is pale beige, and has six small flaws. Painted blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese, black, and white. Shape approximately 52, with three shallow concentric grooves under the outer edge. Circular with a wide, slightly sloping rim and shallow well. Aeneas and his Companions on the Coast of Carthage. Aeneas, accompanied by Achates, stands on the left addressing his three comrades, who stand on the right beside a tree. A zephyr's head peers through a bank of clouds in the sky above them. In the foreground there is a shallow rock and grass; in the middle, the prows of two black ships and a headland; and in the distance, a building on a promontory. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark greenish-black: `AeVlus inmittit/Ventos iunone/precante' (Aeolus sends out the winds at Juno's command), enclosed by a yellow band. A narrow and a wide band encircle the edge. object type: Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Aeneas and his Companions on the Coast of Carthage. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Ralph Bernal; Christie's, 23 March 1855, Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernal, Esq., deceased, lot 1973; Andrew Fountaine IV (1808-73); his heir; Christie's, 16 June 1884, Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels . . ., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk, lot 21; Murray Marks; Sir Francis Oppenheimer, KCMG; Sotheby's, 19 December 1941, Catalogue of Oriental and European ceramics, enamels and works of art . . . the property of Sir Francis Oppenheimer, KCMG, lot 45; Louis C.G. Clarke (1881-1960). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80105 PEOPLE ------------------- Aeneas Achates zephyr SUBJECTS ------------------- ship tree rock cloud grass ship tree rock cloud grass TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse is pale beige, and has six small flaws. Painted blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese, black, and white. moulding 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: Nicola di Gabriele Sbraghe da Urbino maker: Milan Marsyas Painter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 27.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Burlington Fine Arts Society Winter Exhibition, 1934-5 title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the celebrated collection of works of art from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize of that distinguished collector, Ralph Bernal, Esq., deceased, 5 March - 30 April 1855 Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels, carvings in ivory, hone stone and rock crystal, Greek and Roman coins, ancient armour &c. &c., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk Catalogue of Oriental and European ceramics, enamels and works of art . . . the property of Sir Francis Oppenheimer, KCMG Italian Maiolica Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961 Italian maiolica of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries The Fountaine collection of maiolica Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Illustrated Bartsch 27 formerly volume 14 (Part 2) Götter, Helden und Grotesken, Das Goldene Zeitalter der Majolika ---