Maker:
Unidentified
(Probably)
Maker:
Unknown
(Possibly)
Two joined fragments of a dish. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and, on the back, covered with semi-translucent pinkish-white glaze. Painted in blue, green, and dark yellow. The dish has a sloping rim, short vertical side, and a deep curved well standing on a footring. The central medallion contains the initials 'IHS' surrounded by groups of three dots and enclosed by a wide blue band between two narrow. The sides are decorated with yellow rays with blue lines in the spaces, and blue, green, yellow, and blue concentric bands. On the rim are alternately blue and yellow half-leaves between narrow and wide blue bands.
History note: Acquired in Northern Italy c. 1908-1910 by Richard Sneade Brown (1851-1917) of, Heathcote, Worthing
Given by R.S. Brown
Height: 6.0 cm
Length: 23.7 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1910-05-30) by Brown, Richard Sneade
Late 15th century
Early 16th Century
Circa
1480
CE
-
1520
CE
Faenza or Umbria
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, pale green, and dark yellow)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and, on the back, covered with semi-translucent pinkish-white glaze. Painted in blue, pale green, and dark yellow.
Accession number: C.6-1910
Primary reference Number: 81152
Old object number: 161-1910 (no. 6 of group)
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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