IDENTIFIERS
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id:	81164
accession number:	C.17-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Fragment of a dish centre. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale blue on both sides (a berettino glaze). Painted in dark blue, yellow, pale brown and white. Approximately circular with slightly convex centre and irregularly chipped edge.  A circular medallion containing a three-quarter length figure of St Dominic, holding a heart in his out-stretched left hand, and a cross and a lily in his right, against a dark blue ground, enclosed by a narrow blue band and a white band with short strokes projecting from it (resembling blanket stitch). On the reverse are the ends of yellow lines and blue squiggles radiating from the concave base.
title:	fragment

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from the collection of Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926); his widow, Mrs F. Leverton Harris


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs F. Leverton Harris

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81164





TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale blue on both sides (a berettino glaze), and painted in dark blue, yellow, pale brown and white.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1515 - 1540
creation date earliest:	1515
creation date latest:	1540
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Faenza pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 10.9

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 1.5