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Maker: Unknown
Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on a low foot, painted in polychrome with an overall geometrical design.
Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Profile approximately 81 with eighteen scallops round the edge, and shallow sides moulded with dimples.
An overall geometrical design comprising a chequered lozenge linked by beads at its points to four more lozenges separated by stylised flowers. The ground is decorated with blue shapes filled with lines and squiggles. The rim is encircled by a blue band, two narrow manganese-purple, and a wider blue band. A splodge of purple has fallen onto one flower. The exterior of the foot is blue. The underside of the bowl has a row of blue splodges, yellow and orange bands and a wider blue zone below the rim.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 83; H.S. Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 24.9 cm
Height: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1550
CE
-
1600
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Foot
Diameter 11.7 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Accession number: C.188-1991
Primary reference Number: 48469
Packing number: EURCER 681
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/48469 Accessed: 2024-12-23 00:34:25
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