IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71591 accession number: C.12-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, and black; red and golden lustre. Shape 78. Circular with shallow upturned sides and flat centre, standing on a low foot. Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna. Mucius Scaevola stands on the right holding his right hand over flames burning on an altar, behind which stands a soldier and a nude boy, pointing towards Lars Porsenna, who sits on a throne beneath a draped curtain, his feet resting awkwardly on a foot stool. On the right side there is a tree and in the background two more trees and six tents. A black band and a yellow band encircle the outer edge. In the middle of the back there is a lustred swirl and an inscription in dark blue: `.1533./Mucio che la sua des/tra errate cuoce./Nella. . Deca d Tito Livio/Fra: Xato .A./da Rouigo./i Urbino.' (Mucius who scorches his erring right hand.In the Decade of Tito Livius Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo in Urbino.); on the sides, four complex swirls of rd and gold lustre and a yellow band on the edge. object type: Maiolica dish on a low foot, painted in polychrome with Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsenna. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alexander Barker; Sir Francis Cook, Bt; Wyndham F. Cook; Humphrey W. Cook; Christie's, 7 July 1925, Catalogue of an important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the property of Humphrey W. Cook, Esq., and removed from 8 Cadogan Square, S.W., being a portion of the celebrated collection formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart., lot 76; W.H. Woodward; Henry Harris; Sotheby's, 20 June 1950, Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . ., lot 117; Marmaduke Langdale Horn (1890-1953). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: M.L. Horn Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71591 PEOPLE ------------------- Scaevola, Mucius Porsenna, Lars SUBJECTS ------------------- altar curtains tent stool military camp altar curtains tent stool military camp TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese, and black; red and golden lustre. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1533 - 1533 creation date earliest: 1533 creation date latest: 1533 culture: 16th Century, second quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Andreoli workshop maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 29.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Italian Majolica and other Pottery at 8 Cadogan Square Catalogue of an important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the property of Humphrey W. Cook, Esq., and removed from 8 Cadogan Square, S.W., ... collection ... of the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart., 7-10 July 1925 Catalogue of a Collection of Pottery belonging to W.H. Woodward Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . . Corpus della maiolica italiana, II, Le maioliche datate dal l53l al l535 Francesco Xanto Avelli and Petrarch Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_12_1953_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_12_1953_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_12_1953_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_12_1953_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_12_1953_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_12_1953_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_12_1953_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_12_1953_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels