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Maker: Unknown
Maiolica bowl with a broad rim, painted in blue, green, yellow and orange, with the arms of Ridolfi and a chief of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St John, superimposed on a landscape.
Earthenware tin-glazed creamy-white overall, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange. Circular with a wide almost flat rim, and a deep curved well. In the middle, superimposed on a landscape is a beribboned shield, charged with the arms of Ridolfi with a chief of the Knights Hospitallers of St John, azure, a mount of six summits coupeaux or debruuised by a bend gules (shown orange), on a chief gules (shown orange), a cross argent. On the rim, between foliated scroll borders, there is a circle of alternating figure-of-eights and rectangular panels formed by strapwork.
History note: T.J. Gaisford-St Lawrence; Sotheby's, 25 June 1931,Catalogue of very important faience and Italian majolica comprising .... valuable Turkish faience and Italian majolica, and an important Hispano-Moresque gold lustre dish, the property of T.J. Gaisford-St Lawrence, Esq., Howth Castle, Co. Dublin, lot 46.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Diameter: 26.5 cm
Height: 4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-10-18) by Sotheby's
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1515
CE
-
1525
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, green, yellow, and orange)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Accession number: C.44-1931
Primary reference Number: 81207
Glaisher additions number: C.35-1931
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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