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God creating Eve
Maker:
Unknown
(Probably)
Woodcutter:
Salomon, Bernard
(After)
Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on low foot, painted in polychrome with The Creation of Eve.
Bowl. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall, but thinly and unevenly on the reverse, especially in the middle where the fabric shows through it. There is a fault in the glaze near the centre of the front. Painted in dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Shape 81with a scalloped rim of sixteen arcs, deep curved sides and slightly convex centre, standing on a low foot.
The Creation of Eve. God stands on the left beside a stream, raising Eve with his left hand. Adam reclines on a grassy bank on the right. A pebbly path leads into the background of grass, rocks and trees. The rim is yellow. On the back, `Dio quando formo/eua' (God when he created Eve) inscribed in the middle in blue, two yellow bands round the edge of the foot and one on the rim.
History note: Probably William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, part of lot 19; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 28.3 cm
Height: 8.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1560
-
1590
The design was derived from the woodcut illustration by Bernard Salomon, captioned 'GENES II', in Damiano Maraffi's Figure del Vecchio Testamento con versi toscani, Lyon (Jean de Tournes), 1554
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white)
Foot
Diameter 13.6 cm
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall, but thinly and unevenly on the reverse, especially in the middle where the fabric shows through it. There is a fault in the glaze near the centre of the front. Painted in dark greyish-blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.216-1991
Primary reference Number: 73171
Packing number: EURCER 371
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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