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Probably
Mancini Workshop
(Workshop)
Renaissance maiolica dish decorated with blue and gold lustre with a woman playing a lute surrounded by a border of panels of scales, and stylized foliage divided by rays
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale grey with many black speckles and small holes. Painted in blue and with dull silver-yellow lustre.
Shape 61. Circular with slightly sloping rim and rim and wide deep well, standing on a footring pierced by two holes in the correct position for suspension the right way up.
In the middle, a woman playing a lute sits in a garden, with a tree and plants around her. The edge of the well has a border of paired laurel leaves. The rim is divided by radial stripes into four compartments containing alternately scales and a formal flower on a stem flanked by scrolling foliage. A band of yellow lustre encircles the outer edge.
History note: Unknown.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 36.5 cm
Height: 8.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Mid 16th century
Renaissance
Circa
1545
-
1570
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue) reduced pigment lustre ( dull silver-yellow lustre)
Throwing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale grey with many black speckles and small holes. Painted in blue and with dull silver-yellow lustre.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: MAR.C.56-1912
Primary reference Number: 48491
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Dish"
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