IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73074 accession number: C.207-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish on a low foot. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Shape 78 with a slight step in the foot. Circular with shallow upturned sides, standing on a low foot. The Death of Aeschylus. Aeschylus reclines on the left beside a bush and rocks with an open book on the ground in front of him. An eagle flying above has just dropped a tortoise, which has landed upside down on his head. On the right are rocks and a stream, in the middle, five long-legged, long-necked birds, and a ruin in front of which the Fate, Clotho, sits holding a distaff. In the distance is a ruined rotunda and mountains. The rim is yellow. Inside the foot are two wide yellow bands each between narrow blue. The outside of the foot is yellow, and wide yellow and narrow blue bands encircle its junction with the dish. The back of the dish is encircled by a narrow blue band midway across, and narrow blue and wide yellow by the rim. object type: Renaissance maiolica dish on a low foot, painted in polychrome with The Death of Aeschylus. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Mrs Bryan Harland; Sotheby's, 20 May 1932, Catalogue of continental pottery, lot 21; William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, lot 2; 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/73074 PEOPLE ------------------- Aeschylus Fate SUBJECTS ------------------- distaff tortoise birds dying rocks ruin stream distaff tortoise birds dying rocks ruin stream TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1535 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1535 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of continental pottery 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 Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_207_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_207_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_207_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_207_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_207_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_207_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_207_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_207_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_207_1991_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 744 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_207_1991_283_29.jpg height: 511 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_207_1991_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 744 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_207_1991_283_29.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels