IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80613 accession number: C.222-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 28 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse, pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black. Shape 51. Circular with sloping sides and shallow central depression. A river or water god sits over two dolphins. He holds a cornucopia and a jar of water, and has a headdress of bulrushes and perches for birds and animals. Above are two tritons holding entwined serpents, at the sides, grotesque terms, and below, mythical sea creatures. On the waves to right there is a chariot driven by Neptune holding a trident and, on the left, another occupied by a woman blowing a shell horn. The rim has a yellow and orange `rope' edging. The back is encircled by yellow bands: one inside and outside the foot, one a short way beyond it, and two by the outer edge. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a river or water god sitting over two dolphins, tritons, grotesques, and Neptune driving a chariot title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Comm. Giuseppe Cavalieri; Milan, Palazzo Cova, 25-30 May 1914, Catalogue de la collection de M. le Comm. Gius. Cavalieri, Ferrare. Objets d'art et de haute curiosité tableaux et dessins de maîtres anciens, lot 92 & pl. 4; Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 20 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 377 (1); H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80613 PEOPLE ------------------- River God Triton SUBJECTS ------------------- cornucopia jar horn serpent dolphin sea monster cornucopia jar horn serpent dolphin sea monster TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse, pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and elack. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1570 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1570 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century, Late culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Urbino potter maker: Floris, Cornelis II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue de la collection de M. le Comm. Gius. Cavalieri, Ferrare. Objets d'art et de haute curiosité tableaux et dessins de maîtres anciens Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Dutch and Flemish etchings engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_222_1991.jpg height: 735 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_222_1991.jpg height: 484 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_222_1991.jpg height: 735 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_222_1991.jpg height: 242 pixels width: 250 pixels