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The Triumph of Bacchus
Maker:
Unidentified Urbino potter
(Possibly)
Maker:
Unidentified Venetian pottery
(Possibly)
Maker:
Unidentified Rimini potter
(Perhaps)
Etcher:
Franco, Battista
Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl, painted in polychrome with The Triumph of Bacchus.
Shallow bowl. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige, thinly applied, and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Circular with inverted scalloped rim of thirty-two arcs, deep sides moulded with gadroons, and slightly convex centre. The remains of the foot have been ground level.
The Triumph of Bacchus. Bacchus and Pan sit side by side beneath a tree bearing bunches of grapes. Bacchus holds a lyre in his right hand, and Pan holds up a drinking bowl in his left hand and rests his left leg on a goat. A bacchante clasping a tambourine in both hands over her head, dances towards the left. In the foreground there is grass and a stony path; in the background, the sea, a tree, distant hills and sky. The rim is yellow. On the back there are single yellow bands round the junction of the dish and foot and just below the rim.
History note: This is probably the dish purchased by Reitlinger from Alfred Spero on 31 October 1934 and which he recorded in his purchases notebook as 'Urbino (?) plate w. Silenus, Centaur & attendant under a vine', the 'Centaur' presumably being a slip for Pan; H.S. Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 24.1 cm
Height: 5.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Renaissance
16th Century, second half#
Circa
1560
CE
-
1580
CE
This scene on this shallow fluted bowl (crespina) reproduces the central figures from an etching of a Bacchanal by the Venetian artist, Battista Franco (c. 1510-6), after Giuliano Romano (Bartsch, XVI, p. 41, no. 133).This is reproduced more fully on a differently moulded bowl in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which has the title `Triofe di baccho' painted within the footring. Another bowl with sixteen scallops round the edge, decorated with the same design and like the Fitzwilliam’s lacking the two putti on the left, was sold by Cambi ,Milan on 25 October 2016, lot 61. The bowls have been attributed to Urbino or Venice and tentatively to Rimini.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige, thinly applied, and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: circular stick-on label with serrated edge
Accession number: C.220-1991
Primary reference Number: 73230
Packing number: EURCER 368
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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