Current Location: Gallery 6 (Upper Marlay): case 1, part A
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unidentified Tuscan pottery
(District)
Entities
Categories
Description
Renaissance, maiolica dish, painted in red, green and brown with a star surrounded by leaves and almond-shapes.
Red earthenware, the front tin-glazed, the reverse unglazed. Painted in green, yellow, and manganese-brown.
Shape 48. Circular with narrow, slightly sloping rim, deep sides and flat centre.
In the middle, a yellow six-pointed star is imposed on a green and white rosette, surrounded by six loops enclosing green ovoid leaves, and almond-shapes with serrated motifs over them. The background is cross-hatched in manganese and surrounded by a yellow circle. The sides are decorated with lanceolate leaves alternating with squiggles. The rim is divided by yellow and manganese stripes into ten panels filled with horizontal green and manganese scales or leaves.
Notes
History note: Wilhelm von Bode; Kurt Glogowski; Sotheby's, 8 June 1932, Catalogue of the well-known collection of important Italian majolica, also bronzes and statuary, velvets, textiles and embroideries, fine Oriental rugs, & c. the property of Herr Kurt Glogowski of Berlin, lot 33.
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 43 cm
Height: 7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1932-06-08)
by
Sotheby's
Dating
15th Century, first half
Renaissance
Circa
1420
CE
-
1450
CE
Note
Probably made in Florence or its district between about 1420 and 1450
School or Style
Renaissance
famiglia verde
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( green, yellow, and manganese-brown)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Red earthenware, the front tin-glazed, the reverse unglazed. Painted in green, yellow, and manganese-brown.
References and bibliographic entries
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Die Anfänge der Majolikakunst in Toskana
page(s): p. 13
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): p. 281
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Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado secoli XIV e XV
page(s): pp. 73, 451
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): 95-6
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Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica
page(s): 18-19
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Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica
page(s): I, p. 20
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Majolika. Spanische und Italienische Keramik vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin, Band VI
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Ceramiche medioevali dell'Umbria: Assisi Orvieto Todi
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La ceramica medievale a Siena e nella Toscana meridionale (secc. XIV-XV), materiali per una tipologia, Ricerche di archaeologia altomedevale e medievale
page(s): 241
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La ceramica medioevale di Viterbo e dell'alto Lazio
page(s): 132-5
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Ceramiche Umbre dal Medioevo allo Storicismo, Parte Prima, Orvieto e Deruta
page(s): 227
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Italian Maiolica, Catalogue of the Collections
page(s): 20-21
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La maiolica italiana dalle origini alla fine del cinquecento
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.25-1932
Primary reference Number: 81378
Glaisher additions number number: Gl.Add.43-1932
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 August 2022
Last processed: Tuesday 2 September 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
