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Maker: Unknown (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with a woman, three-quarter-length in profile with a distaff.
Dish. Reddish-buff earthenware, the front coated with cream slip (or tin glaze?) and lead-glazed; the reverse lead-glazed. Painted underglaze in blue, yellow, blue over yellow appearing green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple.
Shape 67. Circular with shallow curved sides, standing on a narrow footring pierced by two correctly placed suspension holes.
A woman three-quarter-length in profile to left spins thread from a distaff. She wears a ribbon round her bun, a necklace, and a low-necked greenish-yellow dress with long sleeves and a basque. The rim is encircled by narrow blue, dark yellow, and yellow bands.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 83; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest
Diameter: 31.3 cm
Height: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, yellow, blue over yellow appearing green, dark yellow, and manganese-purple)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
( uncertain)
lead-glaze
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.194-1991
Primary reference Number: 72897
Packing number: EURCER 693
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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