IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73114 accession number: C.210-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 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