IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72337 accession number: C.16 & A-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 4 January 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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). title: dish LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72337 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid Venus grotesque woman SUBJECTS ------------------- shell coat-of-arms eagle shell coat-of-arms eagle TECHNIQUES ---------- Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome (maiolica). tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1882 - 1882 creation date earliest: 1882 creation date latest: 1882 culture: 19th Century, Late# CREATORS -------- maker: Farina factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 50.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Variations on Ceramic Themes, Big is Beautiful? CITATIONS -------- Lettere inedite di Achille, Lucovico e Anna Farina a Giovanni Piancastelli Ceramiche Ottocentesche faentine Le grandi botteghe faentine dello Storicismo, La manufattura Achille Farina e L'Eclettismo ottocentesco --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1996_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_16_1996_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1996_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_16_1996_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1996_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_16_1996_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1996_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_16_1996_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1996_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_16_1996_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_16_1996_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_16_1996_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels