IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72140
accession number:	C.15-1953

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bowl. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Shape 57. Circular with broad, slightly sloping rim and small, deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with four bands of reeding.
The Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe. Pyramus, naked and pierced by his own sword, lies dead in the foreground. On the right, Thisbe is about to throw herself on a sword, watched by Cupid, standing bow in hand on the far left. In the middle, a lioness looks out from behind a fountain and rocks. In the landscape background there is a town and distant hills. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue-black: `Vedi Piramo & Tisbe/i sieme allombra./historia y' (Behold Pyramus and Thisbe together in the shadow. history y).
object type: Maiolica broad-rimmed bowl, painted in polychrome with The Deaths of Pyramus and Thisbe.
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Harris before 1930; Sotheby's, 20 June 1950, Catalogue of fine Italian maiolica from the well-known collection of the late Henry Harris, Esq. . . ., lot 106; Alfred Spero; Marmaduke Langdale Horn.


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/72140

PEOPLE
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Horn, Marmaduke Langdale (1889-1953)
Pyramus
Thisbe
Cupid

SUBJECTS
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sword
lion
dying
landscape
hills
fountain
town
sword
lion
dying
landscape
hills
fountain
town



TECHNIQUES
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Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, beige, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1528 - 1531
creation date earliest:	1528
creation date latest:	1531
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto
maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo
maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna)
maker: Veneziano, Agostino

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 26

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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?
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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