IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80701 accession number: EC.23-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. There are two glaze faults on the back. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, stone, and black. Shape approximately 54 but shallower. Circular with a wide slightly sloping rim and shallow sloping rim and shallow well. Atalanta's Race against Hippomenes. On the right, King Schoenius sits on a stool with two attendants standing behind him. Hippomenes and another youth race towards him from the left, while Atalanta stoops to pick up a golden apple thrown down by Hippomenes. In the landscape background are a castle, two smaller buildings and a bridge, a clump of trees, and distant mountains. Here and there on the grass there are pebbles and plants with one four-petalled flower. In the foreground there is a cartouche containing a kite-shaped shield charged with the arms or, a griffin segreant to sinister sable, in chief an inverted label of four points gules (shown orange) with three barrels (?) gules (shown orange) above. The edge of the plate is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue, `MD/XXX/IIII/>B<M'. The rest is decorated with orange scale pattern over wide zones of yellow, reserved white and yellow, with four narrow concentric orange bands round the base and the outer edge. object type: Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome, with Atalanta's Race against Hippomenes. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 19 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 256. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80701 PEOPLE ------------------- Atalanta Hippomenes King Schoenius SUBJECTS ------------------- shield golden apple flower trees racing landscape mountains building bridge castle shield golden apple flower trees racing landscape mountains building bridge castle TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. There are two glaze faults on the back. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, stone, and black. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1534 - 1534 creation date earliest: 1534 creation date latest: 1534 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Manara, Baldassare maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II Corpus della maiolica italiana, II, Le maioliche datate dal l53l al l535 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 Baldassare Manara Faentino pittore di maioliche nel Cinquecento Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Die italienische Majolika als Bildträger klassicher Themen – Parallelen in der Entwicklung des Buchdrucks und der istoriato-Majolika am Beispiel des Atalante-Mythos Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Italian Maiolica and Europe --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_23_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 734 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_EC_23_1939.jpg height: 518 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_23_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 734 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_EC_23_1939.jpg height: 259 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/723/large_EC_23_1939_201206_adn21_mas.jpg height: 1116 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/723/mid_EC_23_1939_201206_adn21_mas.jpg height: 545 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/EC.23-1939_201206_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/723/preview_EC_23_1939_201206_adn21_mas.jpg height: 272 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/723/EC_23_1939_201206_adn21_mas.ptif height: 5484 pixels width: 5032 pixels