IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48355 accession number: C.3-1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior of the bowl and exterior; the interior of the foot unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, red, manganese, and black. Shape 73. Circular with deep sides and almost flat base; high spreading foot with a sloping outer edge. In the middle, framed by blue and yellow zig-zags between concentric circles, is a shield of testa di cavallo form charged with the arms or, six balls gules (shown dark yellow) surrounding one azure charged with three fleurs-de-lis or, set diagonally on a square with blue and yellow corners, reserved in a yellow ground decorated with blue dotted geometrical motifs. On the sides, green and blue palmettes alternate with formal plants flanked by cornucopiae reserved in a dark yellow ground. A blue band encircles the rim. Outside, there are formal plants flanked by cornucopiae reserved in a dark yellow ground, with above, a blue and yellow leaf border, and below, blue and yellow horizontal bands. The underside of the bowl is decorated with red and dark yellow San Bernardino rays radiating from blue and yellow concentric bands. On the stem and foot are mock gadroons with yellow diamonds in the spaces at their lower ends, and, on the outer edge, a border of scale pattern between blue bands. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in poychrome with, in the middle, a shield and, on the sides, palmettes, cornucopiae and leaf borders. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Spero, London 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/48355 SUBJECTS ------------------- shield coat-of-arms shield coat-of-arms TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the interior of the bowl and exterior; the interior of the foot unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, dark yellow, red, manganese, and black. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1525 culture: 16th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Renaissance Ceramics: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, Volume I and Volume II Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Maiolica of Montelupo. 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