IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	73114
accession number:	C.210-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white and tinged with green on the left side. Painted in blue, green, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, black, and white.
Shape 79 with deeper sides. Circular with shallow curved sides, standing on a low foot.
The Goddess Latona and the Lycians. The goddess reclines on a rock beside a tree, accompanied by her two children, Apollo and Diana. To the right three Lycians stand up to their waists in water, and a fourth dives down to the bottom, his legs raised above the surface. On the right there are two trees, and in the distance, a lake and buildings on islands. A bird flies from left to right across the sky. The rim is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: `la dea tona/1542' (the goddess (La)tona). Single yellow bands encircle the foot and outer edge.
object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with The Goddess Latona and the Lycians.
title:	dish

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: W.M. de Zoete; Sotheby's, 2 April 1935, Catalogue of the valuable collections of bronzes, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, etc., the property of W.M. de Zoete, Esq. (deceased) of Layer Breton, Colchester and Blenheim House, North Berwick, lot 247; 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, 1950.

STABLE URL
----------
url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73114

PEOPLE
-------------------
Latona
Apollo
Diana
Lycians

SUBJECTS
-------------------
transformation
bird
tree
landscape
transformation
bird
tree
landscape



TECHNIQUES
----------
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white and tinged with green on the left side. Painted in blue, green, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, black, and white.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
----------
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
------
category: tin-glazed earthenware

DATING
------
creation date:	1542 - 1542
creation date earliest:	1542
creation date latest:	1542
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
--------
maker: Guido di Merlino
maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
----------
dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 28.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.9



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
-------------------
title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
--------
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
---
IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_210_1991_281_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_210_1991_281_29.jpg
height: 649 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_210_1991_281_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_210_1991_281_29.jpg
height: 325 pixels
width: 250 pixels


surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_210_1991_282_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_210_1991_282_29.jpg
height: 649 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_210_1991_282_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_210_1991_282_29.jpg
height: 325 pixels
width: 250 pixels


surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_210_1991_283_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_210_1991_283_29.jpg
height: 649 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_210_1991_283_29.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_210_1991_283_29.jpg
height: 325 pixels
width: 250 pixels