IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 47189 accession number: EC.3-1937 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, in-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape approximately 64 with plain rim. Circular with almost flat rim, and wide shallow well; warped in firing. Apollo slaying the Sons of Niobe. Apollo stands on the left, firing his bow towards the stampeding horses of the sons of Niobe, five of whom are wholly or partly visible. Behind Apollo is the head of an old man. Further back to left there is a group of trees on either side of a rock, and to right, the citadel of Cadmus and two trees. In the distance there is a landscape with a mountain. A black band and a wider yellow band encircle the outer edge. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue: `Febbo saetto li ffillole de/Niobbe .548' (Phoebus shoots the sons of/Niobe). title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Conte Ferdinando Pasolini Dall'Onda, Faenza; sold Paris, Ridel, 14 December 1853, Catalogue d'une belle collection de majoliques italiennes des diverses fabriques des XVe, XVIe & XVIIe siècles dont la vente aura lieu Rue des Jeuneurs n. 42, salle 2., lot 212. Perhaps Joseph Marryat; Christie's, 16 February 1866, Catalogue of works of art formed during a long series of years by Joseph Marryat Esq., author of the well-known work on `Pottery and Porcelain', p. 52, lot 850. Charles Ricketts, RA (1866-1931) and Charles H. Shannon, RA (1863-1937) ; Charles H. Shannon RA by whom bequeathed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Ricketts and Shannon Collection creditline: The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/47189 PEOPLE ------------------- Pasolini Dall'Onda, Ferdinando Ricketts, Charles de Sousy Shannon, Charles Haslewood Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- revenge bow horse (animal) shooting landscape Apollo shooting the Sons of Niobe revenge bow horse (animal) shooting landscape Apollo shooting the Sons of Niobe TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1548 - 1548 creation date earliest: 1548 creation date latest: 1548 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Guido di Merlino maker: Polidoro da Caravaggio (Polidoro Caldara) maker: Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: All for Art: The Ricketts & Shannon Collection title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ovid in Six Volumes III Metamorphoses with an English Translation by Frank Justus Miller Le Vite de' Più Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori ed Architettori Polidoro da Caravaggio Die 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