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Maker: Unknown
Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in blue and yellow with, in the middle, a rabbit surrounded by six rhomboids.
Pale buff earthenware, probably slip-coated and tin-glazed on the front; the reverse partially glazed; base unglazed. Painted in blue and dark yellow.
Shape 67. Circular with shallow sloping sides and disk base.
In the middle is a rabbit in profile to left surrounded by two blue circles and a white zone decorated with six blue crossed rhomboids. Round the edge are four concentric blue bands and scale pattern in blue on a yellow ground.
History note: Probably purchased from Rasmussen & Bickebery (?) on 3 January 1931 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 26.7 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1500
CE
-
1525
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue and dark yellow)
Front
base unglazed
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, probably slip-coated and tin-glazed on the front; the reverse partially glazed; base unglazed. Painted in blue and dark yellow.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Inscription present: Fragments of the deaths column of a June, 1939 newspaper were stuck on the back but have been removed.
Accession number: C.198-1991
Primary reference Number: 48488
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/48488 Accessed: 2024-12-23 00:54:22
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