IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47105 accession number: EC.35-1942 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides; the glaze on the reverse is pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, black, and a little white high-lighting. Shape 64. Circular with narrow rim, and wide, shallow well. The Contest between the Muses and the Pierides. The nine daughters of Pierus stand on the right separated by a stream from the Muses, led by Callipte who holds a harp. Above, a group of nymphs, gods and goddesses, including Apollo and Minerva, serve as judges. In the landscape background there are stunted trees on hills, and on the right, a coastline with buildings and distant mountains. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue, 'Ausae Cum Musjs Committere proelja/Voce Victae nunc Volitant jmmitantes/omnia pjcae/Fatto jn Urbino in Botega de Mo (o raised)/Guido da Casteldurante' (Having dared to have contests with the Muses and defeated by voice, they now fly away as magpies imitating everything). Single yellow bands encircle the junction of the rim and well, and the outer edge. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome, with The Contest between the Muses and the Pierides. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably the Comtesse de Cambis; Baron Achille Seillière; sold Christie's, 13 July 1888, Catalogue of Old Italian Maiolica from the Collection of a Well-known Amateur, lot 198 (95 guineas); Sir Otto Beit, London; Sir Alfred Beit, BT, MP, London; sold Sotheby's, 16 September 1942, Catalogue of the Important Italian Majolica the property of Sir Alfred Beit, B.T., M.P., p. 23, lot 63; sold to Louis C.G. Clarke for the Fitzwilliam. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47105 PEOPLE ------------------- Seillière, Achille, Baron Beit, Otto Beit, Alfred, Sir Muses Pierides Apollo Minerva SUBJECTS ------------------- harp tree music landscape Contest between the Muses and Pierides harp tree music landscape Contest between the Muses and Pierides TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides; the glaze on the reverse is pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, black, and a little white high-lighting. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1545 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Durantino, Guido maker: Gatti, Camillo maker: Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 46 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Collection of Pictures of the Umbrian School and Other Works of Art title: Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 title: Italian Maiolica from the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Histoire de la céramique: Étude descriptive et raisonnée des poteries de tous les temps et de tous les peuples Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr Otto Beit Majolica at the Exhibition of Italian Art A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, l930 Majoliken aus der Werkstatt der Fontana In Botega di Maestro Guido Durantino in Urbino Âge d’or de la Faïence italienne au XVIe siècle The Illustrated Bartsch 28 formerly volume 15 (Part 1) Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century Ovid in Six Volumes III Metamorphoses with an English Translation by Frank Justus Miller Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Maioliche dello "Schlossmuseum" di Berlino perdute nella Seconda Guera Mondiale Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs- d’oeuvre --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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