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Maiolica dish with a broad rim
Maker: 'Assumption Painter'
Painted in polychrome, with a man being fired at by arrows in a landscape, being released or tied up by a young woman
Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and opaque white. There are three small spur marks in the well. Shape approximately 59 (Poole 1995), slightly convex in the middle. Circular with a broad rim, and deep curved well, slightly convex in the middle.
The central medallion contains a landscape in which a stream of arrows speeds towards a young man who is bound to a stake, while a young woman is either tying him up or releasing him. The sides are decorated with bianco sopra bianco and orange Vs between rows of simulated beading. On the rim are grotesques reserved in a dark blue ground: four labels inscribed `1520', each flanked by cornucopiae and scrolls and surmounted by a winged putto's head, alternating with four grotesque masks, each flanked by dolphin scrolls and surmounted by a palmette. The rim is yellow.
The middle of the back is painted in blue with three concentric circles, crossed by two lines. One quarter contains a small circle, the other three an arrow pointing towards the centre. Radiating from the base are two rows of blue petals, the inner row transversely striped in blue and the outer in orange. The spaces between the petals are filled with blue transverse lines, and three narrow concentric blue bands encircle the edge.
History note: Sir Otto Beit; Sir Alfred Beit; Sotheby's, 16 October 1942, Catalogue of important Italian majolica, the property of Sir Alfred Beit Bt, MP, lot 22.
Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund
Diameter: 28.6 cm
Height: 4.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1942) by Sotheby's
16th Century
Production date:
AD 1520
: dated
in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and opaque white
High-temperature colours
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing
: Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and opaque white. There are three small spur marks in the well.
Painting
Accession number: EC.36-1942
Primary reference Number: 80787
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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