IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73085
accession number:	C.208-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Panel. Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and a little white.
Rectangular.
The infant Christ lies on a mound in the middle, supported by St Anne (?). The Virgin kneels to the right of him and Joseph sits beside a tall rock and a tree. To the left, one shepherd kneels with a hound and three stand beside him adoring the Child. Behind the group there is a bearded man, two oxen and a ruined arch. Two more standing shepherds and one seated playing a pipe to his sheep are in the landscape background.
object type: Renaissance maiolica panel, painted in poychrome with The Adoration of the Shepherds.
title:	panel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 19 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 288; 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, 1950

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73085

PEOPLE
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shepherd
St Anne
St Joseph
Christ
Virgin Mary

SUBJECTS
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ox
sheep
hound
tree
arch
Adoration of the Shepherds
ox
sheep
hound
tree
arch
Adoration of the Shepherds



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and a little white.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1535 - 1540
creation date earliest:	1535
creation date latest:	1540
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo
maker: Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 1.0

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 25.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 21.8



CITATIONS
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Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II
Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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