IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 15553 accession number: C.61-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 27 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Very pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, dark yellow and manganese. Square with deep sides. The back has been scooped out to produce three raised concentric rings. On the front, a white hound sejant in profile to the right with its head turned sharply to the right. The hound is outlined and shaded in blue and wears a dark yellow muzzle with a leash of the same colour coiling out behind it. The ground is green with yellow patches and tufts of blue grass. The background is manganese. object type: Maiolica floor or pavement tile, painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese with a hound sejant muzzled and leashed. title: floor tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: From a series of tiles commissioned for the Gonzaga for a pavement in his villa at Marmirolo, but also used in Isabella d'Este studiolo in the Castello di San Giorgio at Mantua. Purchased from Durlacher Bros., 142 New Bond Street, London, on 20 February 1920 by F. Leverton Harris ( 1864-1926). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15553 PEOPLE ------------------- Francesco II Gonzaga Isabella d'Este SUBJECTS ------------------- Marmirolo Mantua hound sitting hound sitting CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1492 - 1494 creation date earliest: 1492 creation date latest: 1494 culture: 15th Century, Late culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Antonio dei Fedeli DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 4.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Italian maiolica in the collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris - I The Leverton Harris Collection Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400-1600 Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica The Scholar in his Study The Dog, 5000 Years of the Dog in Art Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Splendours of the Gonzaga Isabelle d'Este et les artistes de son temps L'Italia Splendida Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux Masterpieces of Western Ceramics, Italian Ceramics Isabella d'Este Furstin und Mazenatin der Renaissance Milan, Museo d'Arti Applicate, Le ceramiche, Tomo primo Italian Renaissance Maiolica Majolique, La faïence italienne au temps des humanistes 1480-1530 Maiolica before Raphael. 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