IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72897 accession number: C.194-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with a woman, three-quarter-length in profile with a distaff. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72897 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- distaff distaff CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 31.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.4 CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_194_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_194_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_194_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_194_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_194_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_194_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_194_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_194_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels