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Maker: Unknown (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with a putto in the middle, surrounded by concentric circles, radiating petals, leaves and bands.
Dish. Earthenware. The front is coated with cream slip (or tin glaze?) and covered with a bubbly lead glaze; the reverse is incised with concentric circles and is unglazed except for dribbles over the thin coating of slip near the rim. Painted underglaze in blue, green, yellow, and orange.
Shape 67. Circular with deep sloping sides, curving outwards at the rim, standing on a footring pierced by two correctly placed suspension holes.
In the middle, a putto runs towards the right, surrounded by blue and yellow concentric circles and eight radiating petals. Pointing inwards from the rim are eight pairs of orange and yellow leaves with a bud between each pair, separated by groups of three green leaves. Round the rim are two blue bands and a wide yellow band.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Diameter: 31.5 cm
Height: 6.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, Late
17th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1580
CE
-
1620
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow and orange)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( uncertain)
lead-glaze
Reverse
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.191-1991
Primary reference Number: 72849
Packing number: EURCER 375
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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