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Bowl: C.188-1991

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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  • Bowl
  • shallow bowl on a low foot

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Description

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.

Notes

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.

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 24.9 cm
Height: 6.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

16th Century
Renaissance
Circa 1550 CE - 1600 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Foot Diameter 11.7 cm

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.188-1991
Primary reference Number: 48469
Packing number: EURCER 681

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 20 August 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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