IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48201 accession number: C.92.2 & 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 blue, 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 are two frogs and a snail. object type: Della Robbia vase with two dolphin handles decorated in blue tin-glaze with traces of gilding. Into the mouth of the vase fits a posy of modelled flowers, fruit, vegetables, two frogs and a snail decorated naturalistically in coloured glazes. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Henry Harris; 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48201 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 15th Century culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Della Robbia, Giovanni DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 39 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 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 Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 ---