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Production: Farina factory
Dish. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome (maiolica). Circular with a wide rim, shallow well, and low footring. Decorated in the well with a central medallion of Venus reclining on a shell with Cupid standing beside her, surrounded by grotesques, interrupted at the top by an oval medallion enclosing a coat-of-arms: azure, a ladder or with fleurons above and below, imposed on a black spread eagle with gold crown, and on each side by rectangular labels inscribed 'FABRICA' and 'FARINA'. On the rim the grotesques are interrupted on the right and left by circular medallions containing bust portraits of a woman and a man in late sixteenth-century costume, at the top by a circular medallion containing a Cupid, and at the bottom by an oval medallion containing two putti. The outer edge is yellow. The dish arrived in a circular carved wooden frame (A).
Diameter: 50.3 cm
Height: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1996) by Webb, M. E., Mrs
19th Century, Late#
Production date:
AD 1882
: dated
Renaissance Revival
historismus
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
Frame
composed of
wood (plant material)
Tin-glazing : Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome (maiolica).
Inscription present: a star enclosing F over 'FAENZA/1882' painted
Accession number: C.16 & A-1996
Primary reference Number: 72337
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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