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The Virgin and Child
Maker: Unknown (Probably)
Incised slipware panel showing a half-lenth figure of the Virgin holding the Christ Child on her lap, flanked by foliage within a tabernacle frame with IHS in the pediment.
Reddish-brown earthenware, press-moulded in relief and coated with white slip on the front. Cut-away and incised decoration painted in blue, green, and brownish-yellow under lead glaze. Of tabernacle form with columns at the sides, and a scrolled pediment with two suspension holes at the top. Within the frame, a half-length figure of the Virgin holds the infant Christ in her arms. On each side there is a spray of foliage, and in the pediment 'IHS' (Jesus) below a cross.
History note: Purchased at Lugano in 1901 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 5.6 cm
Height: 38.3 cm
Width: 25.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1650
CE
The relief was derived from a late fifteenth century Emilian or Lombard relief in terracotta or carta pesta, such as one in the Victoria and Albert Museum. See Documentation Pope-Hennessy 1964, and Cecchetti 1984.
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
( blue, green, brownish-yellow)
slip
( on front)
Front
composed of
lead-glaze
Press-moulding : Reddish-brown earthenware, press-moulded in relief, and coated with white slip on the front. Cut-away and incised decoration painted in blue, green, and brownish-yellow under lead-glaze.
Accession number: C.1789-1928
Primary reference Number: 72613
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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