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Maker: Unidentified Venetian pottery (Probably)
Maiolica dish, painted in blue and white with a landscape featuring a ruin.
Earthenware, tin-glazed pale blue overall. Painted in blue and white. Shape 59. Circular with slightly sloping rim and concave well, standing on a slight footring.
A landscape featuring a ruin with a colonnade behind a tree, and in the background, water and two pointed hills. A narrow band encircles the rim. On the back, interlacing blue petal outlines radiate from the footring.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £5.10.0
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Height: 4.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1550
CE
-
1575
CE
This plate may have been made in Venice or possibly in Genoa, or Pesaro in the Duchy of Urbino. It is rather coarsely painted in comparison to two probably Venetian plates in the Ashmolean Museum, and is probably later.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and white)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed pale blue overall, and painted in blue and white.
Accession number: C.2210-1928
Primary reference Number: 80747
Old object number: 2458
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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