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The Creation of Eve
Maker:
Unknown
(Probably)
Artist:
Zuccari, Federico
(After)
Engraver:
Sadeler, Johannes I
(After)
Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on foot, painted in polychrome with The Creation of Eve.
Shallow bowl on foot. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinly applied and has a discoloured and speckled area on the right side. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Circular with a scalloped rim of sixteen arcs, deep sides and convex centre, standing on a low foot. The sides are moulded with radiating petals and a row of dimples below the rim.
The Creation of Eve. Adam sleeps on a mound below a fruit tree on the left. Eve rises from beside him with her hands held up in prayer, looking towards God, who stands to the right with his right hand raised. In the landscape background there are two more trees, mountains, and birds in the sky. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue, `Dio quado formo eva' (God when he formed Eve), the last word projecting outside the foot.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, lot 9; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Diameter: 27.6 cm
Height: 8.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1575
CE
-
1600
CE
The design originated in a drawing by Federico Zuccaro (1540/1 - 1609), engraved by Johannes Sadeler I (1550-c. 1600), who was working in Italy during the 1590s. However, as the iconography is in reverse to the print, it might have been executed from a copy of Zuccaro's drawing, presumably earlier in date.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinly applied and has a discoloured and speckled area on the right side. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: Dio qua(line over a)do formo eva
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.215-1991
Primary reference Number: 73165
Packing number: EURCER 688
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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