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Plate from the Salviati Service
Workshop: Durantino, Guido (Probably)
Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a landscape with two lovers reclining on a river bank.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, turquoise, yellow, reddish-brown, black, grey, and white.
Shape 59, slightly convex in the centre. Circular with a gently sloping rim and deep curved well.
A landscape with two lovers reclining on a river bank, two cows beside a cottage, a castle, other buildings and a bridge beside a lake, and distant mountains. In the sky there is a scrolled and beribboned cartouche with masks at the top, right, and left sides, enclosing an oval shield, charged with the Salviati arms, argent, three bendlets, two embattled counter embattled gules and one embattled gules. The edge is yellow. On the back there are single yellow bands round the foot and shoulder and two round the outer edge.
History note: Louis Richard Zschille (1847-1903); sold Christie's, 1 June 1899, Catalogue of the collection of Italian majolica of the XVth. to XVIIIth. centuries, Hispano-Mauro, Rhodean, Persian, and other faience, of Herr Richard Zschille of Grossenhein, near Dresden, lot 103. H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 27.8 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1560
CE
-
Before
1583
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, yellowish-green, turquoise, yellow, reddish-brown, black, grey, and white)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, yellowish-green, turquoise, yellow, reddish-brown, black, grey, and white.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Inscription present: brown circular
Accession number: C.211-1991
Primary reference Number: 73121
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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