IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72849
accession number:	C.191-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with a putto in the middle, surrounded by concentric circles, radiating petals, leaves and bands.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


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
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72849

PEOPLE
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putto




CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1580 - 1620
creation date earliest:	1580
creation date latest:	1620
culture:	16th Century, Late
culture:	17th Century, Early#
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 31.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.5



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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