IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48469 accession number: C.188-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on a low foot, painted in polychrome with an overall geometrical design. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48469 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed creamy-white overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_188_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_188_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_188_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_188_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_188_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_188_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_188_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_188_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels