IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80721 accession number: C.179-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange. Shape approximately 59. Circular with broad sloping rim and deep well. A Battle between Caesar and Pompey. Troops of cavalry are drawn up on the right and left, the former moving forward to attack. Above, there is an oval shield charged with the arms of the Wittelsbach Dukes of Bavaria below a coronet. At the bottom of the rim is an inscription: `cavaleria di popeo simoue/cotra cesare' (Cavalry of Pompey advances against Caesar). A narrow blue band and a yellow band between two orange encircle the rim. The base is marked in brownish-orange `.DO.PI .'. object type: Renaissance maiolica broad-rimmed bowl, painted in blue, yellow and orange with A Battle between Caesar and Pompey. title: broad-rimmed bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80721 PEOPLE ------------------- Caesar, Gaius Julius SUBJECTS ------------------- shield spear coat-of-arms horse (animal) battle shield spear coat-of-arms horse (animal) battle TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1576 - 1576 creation date earliest: 1576 creation date latest: 1576 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Bettisi, Leonardo di Antonio DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_179_1991.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 746 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_179_1991.jpg height: 509 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_179_1991.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 746 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_179_1991.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels