IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71966
accession number:	C.14-1953

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 27 February 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse greyish and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Shape 57. Circular with a wide, slightly sloping rim and small, deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with three bands of reeding.
A Political Allegory. A man in armour all'antica holding a trident stands on the left accompanied by a horse and a cock. On the right, a nude man with a billowing cloak is poised to make a blow with a curved sword held in his right hand. In the foreground there is a pebbly path and grass; on the right, rocks and a tree; and in the background, a river running past fortifications towards distant mountains. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: `fuggi spagna: Marcho/et francia./nota y' (flee Spain: Mark and France. take note y).
object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with A Political Allegory.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Harris; Sotheby's, 20 June 1950, Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . ., lot 110; Alfred Spero; Marmaduke Langdale Horn (1889-1953).


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
creditline: M.L. Horn Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71966

PEOPLE
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Horn, Marmaduke Langdale (1889-1953)
man

SUBJECTS
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trident
sword
horse (animal)
cock
tree
landscape
rocks
river
mountains
trident
sword
horse (animal)
cock
tree
landscape
rocks
river
mountains



TECHNIQUES
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Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse greyish and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1528 - 1530
creation date earliest:	1528
creation date latest:	1530
culture:	16th Century, second quarter#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto
maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio
maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna)

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 27

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
title:	Xanto: Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of a Collection of Italian Maiolica belonging to Henry Harris
Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . .
Xanto and "F.R.": an insoluble problem?
Xanto e il duca di Urbino
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
'Take Note': The Construction of Political Allegories of the Sack of Rome (1527) on Italian Renaissance Maiolica in the British Museum
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