IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73171
accession number:	C.216-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl on low foot, painted in polychrome with The Creation of Eve.
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73171

PEOPLE
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God
Eve
Adam

SUBJECTS
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trees
landscape
The Creation of Eve
trees
landscape
The Creation of Eve



TECHNIQUES
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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.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1560 - 1590
creation date earliest:	1560
creation date latest:	1590
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown
maker: Salomon, Bernard

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 28.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.5



CITATIONS
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A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto
The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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