IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47187 accession number: C.59-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 10 October 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Shape 64. Circular with narrow rim and wide shallow well. The Judgement of Paris. Paris and his dog sit on the left. He hands the apple of discord to Venus who is accompanied by Cupid; Juno with her peacock stands behind them, and to the right is Minerva, who has her back to the viewer and holds up a drape; above, a winged Victory holds a wreath over Venus' head. To the left are three nymphs, including Paris' wife Oenone, and to their right, behind Paris, is Mercury, who is leaving; to the right, three river gods sit or recline beside the River Scamander. In the sky Apollo drives the chariot of the sun through a zodiac arch and on the right, emerging from a bank of clouds, Coelius supports Jove, seated with his eagle beside him and Diana and two other gods behind him. In the landscape background to left are two bulls and a nude woman with a unicorn, and in the distance, buildings and mountain peaks. The edge is yellow. On the reverse, in the middle, an oval shield bears the arms of Farnese impaling Crispi, or six fleurs-de-lis azure placed three, two, and one, impaling azure a unicorn argent on a terrace vert, dipping its horn in a stream, a comet above, surmounted by a cross and cardinal's hat, and flanked by three rows of tassels, with below, the inscription in blue 'SORDENT.PRAE FORM/INGENIVM VIRTVS/REGNA.AURV[M] (GENIUS, VALOUR, DOMINATION AND WEALTH ARE DESPISED IN COMPARISON TO BEAUTY). Yellow bands encircle the outer and inner edges of the rim. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with The Judgement of Paris. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly Charles Jarvis (?1675-1739); his sale, London, 11-20 March 1739 (OS),A catalogue of the most valuable collection of pictures . . . late of . . . Esq., deceased, lot 555. Probably Princess Amelia; possibly Thomas 2nd Vicount Hampden; Viscountess Hampden (d. 1833); sold Christie, Manson, and Christie, 16 and 18 April 1834, A catalogue of the valuable assemblage of Italian Bronzes, magnificent French Furniture, of boule and marqueterie; and rare Oriental and other porcelain . . . , p. 12, lot 68; Lord Eldon, Scotland ?; Richard Ford (1706-1858), Heavitree, near Exeter, before 1850; Captain Ford; Christie's, 31 July 1919, Catalogue of porcelain, objects of art and tapestry from various sources, lot 43; purchased for £399 by Durlacher Bros. on behalf of 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/47187 PEOPLE ------------------- Ford, Richard (1796-1858) Harris, Frederick Leverton Venus Cupid Juno Minerva Mercury Paris Oenone Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- judgement dog horse (animal) eagle apple landscape The Judgement of Paris judgement dog horse (animal) eagle apple landscape The Judgement of Paris TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting 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: Raimondi, Marcantonio DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 45.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: 'I turned it into a palace', Sir Sydney Cockerell and The Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A catalogue of the valuable assemblage of Italian bronzes, mangificent French furniture, of boule and marqueterie; and rare Oriental and other porcelain; the property of the Viscountess Hampden, deceased Collections towards a History of Pottery and Porcelain in the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries A History of Pottery and Porcelain Medieval and Modern Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the Right Hon. F. Leverton Harris, II The Leverton Harris Collection Art on the Table Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Lady Un secolo di recerche e donazioni/One century of Bequests and Acquisitions Potted History Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica The Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1997 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1848-1998, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Collecting Painted Clay, Graphic Arts and the Ceramic Surface I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum The Illustrated Bartsch: The Works of Marcantonio Raimondi and of his School, vols 26-27 Dizionario biografico degli Italiani Epitome pontificum romanorum a S. Pietro usque ad Paulum III Pierre Richard Royer Advertisement Fine French and C ontinental Furniture and Decorations, European Works of Art and Tapestries, Ceramics and Carpets --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_59_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_59_1927.jpg height: 500 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_59_1927.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_59_1927.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/680/large_C_59_1927_mas.jpg height: 1171 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/680/mid_C_59_1927_mas.jpg height: 572 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.59-1927_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/680/preview_C_59_1927_mas.jpg height: 286 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/680/C_59_1927_mas.ptif height: 6677 pixels width: 5837 pixels