IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73150 accession number: C.213-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse unevenly applied and tinged with greyish-green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape approximately 59, but with wider, shallower well. Circular with sloping rim and wide shallow well, standing on a footring. Hercules and Omphale with Cupid. Hercules sits in front of a rock on the left. He has a distaff under his left arm and holds a spindle in his right hand. Cupid, holding a bow, stands between him and Omphale who approaches from the right. In the foreground there is grass and a stony path, to the right, a tree, and in the background, hills and buildings. A narrow blue band and a wider yellow band encircle the rim. On the back, `ercole e dianira' is inscribed in the middle in blue, and there are yellow bands round the shoulder, near the rim, and on the edge. object type: Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with Hercules and Omphale with Cupid. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably purchased in May 1925 from Robinson & Fisher, London, by 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, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73150 PEOPLE ------------------- Hercules Omphale Cupid SUBJECTS ------------------- distaff spindle bow grass path hills buildings distaff spindle bow grass path hills buildings TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse unevenly applied and tinged with greyish-green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1570 - 1590 creation date earliest: 1570 creation date latest: 1590 culture: 16th Century, Late culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Following Hercules: The Story of Classical Art CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italienische Majolika, Katalog der Sammlung Following Hercules, The story ofclassical art Catalogue of the Italian Majolica in the Walters Art Gallery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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