IDENTIFIERS
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id:	48491
accession number:	MAR.C.56-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: 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
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) by whom bequeathed


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48491

PEOPLE
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woman

SUBJECTS
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music
lute
trees
plants
laurel
garden
lute
trees
plants
laurel
music
garden



TECHNIQUES
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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.
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica
category: lustreware

DATING
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creation date:	1545 - 1570
creation date earliest:	1545
creation date latest:	1570
culture:	16th Century, Mid
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Mancini Workshop

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 36.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.2



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, La donazione Galeazzo Cora, Ceramiche dal medioevo al XIX secolo
Ceramiche Umbre dal Medioevo allo Storicismo, Parte Prima, Orvieto e Deruta
Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux
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