IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73159 accession number: C.214-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse thinly applied and tinged with green in four places; three spur marks on the front of the rim. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Shape 59. Circular with sloping rim and deep well, standing on a footring. God creating Adam. God, wearing a crown, a long gown and a billowing cloak, stands on the right holding out his right arm towards Adam who lies on the ground on the left. In the landscape background there is grass and a rock, a stony path, an elephant beside three small trees, a large tree in the centre, and distant mountains. In the sky on the left there is the sun and six birds and, on the right, the moon and two birds. The edge is yellow. On the back, a blue band encircles the edge. object type: Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with God creating Adam. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73159 PEOPLE ------------------- God Adam SUBJECTS ------------------- bird elephant tree landscape path rock mountain The Creation of Adam bird elephant tree landscape path rock mountain The Creation of Adam TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse thinly applied and tinged with green in four places; three spur marks on the front of the rim. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1555 - 1580 creation date earliest: 1555 creation date latest: 1580 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Salomon, Bernard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 27.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.0 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/aa9/C_214_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_214_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_214_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_214_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_214_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_214_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_214_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_214_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_214_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_214_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_214_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_214_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels