IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48491 accession number: MAR.C.56-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 19 November 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: Unknown before Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) by whom bequeathed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/48491 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- music lute trees plants laurel garden lute trees plants laurel music garden TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica category: lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1545 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century, Mid culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Mancini Workshop DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/MAR_C_56_1912.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_MAR_C_56_1912.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/MAR_C_56_1912.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_MAR_C_56_1912.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels