IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48200 accession number: C.92.1 & A-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded and tin-glazed on the exterior and the interior of the neck; the interior and base unglazed. Glaze colours: lavender-blue with traces of gilding; the posies are green, yellowish-green, yellow, brown, manganese-purple, white, and brownish-black. The vase stands on a circular moulded foot. The lower part of the body is gadrooned, a band of interlace ornament encircles the widest part, and the neck and shoulders are decorated with scales. The lip is moulded and slightly everted. On each side there is a dolphin handle, the head attached to the shoulder and the tail to the rim. Into the mouth of the vase fits a posy of modelled flowers, fruit and vegetables, amid which on are two frogs. One of a pair of vases object type: Della Robbia vase with two dolphin handles decorated in blue glaze with traces of gilding. Into the mouth fits a posy of modelled flowers, fruit, vegetables and two frogs, decorated naturalistically in coloured glazes. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Harris; sold Sotheby's, 24 October 1950, Catalogue of the celebrated collection of bronzes, sculpture, paintings and works of art of the Italian Renaissance, lot 5; Louis C.G. Clarke, (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Louis C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48200 SUBJECTS ------------------- snail fruit snail fruit TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 16th Century, Early culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Della Robbia, Giovanni DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 39.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of a Collection of Italian Maiolica belonging to Henry Harris Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 I Della Robbia. La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Studio Pottery, no. 27 Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_92A_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 568 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_92A_1961.jpg height: 669 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_92A_1961.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 568 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_92A_1961.jpg height: 335 pixels width: 250 pixels