IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73237 accession number: C.221-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the reverse pale beige. There is a fault in the glaze on the reverse. Painted in blue, green, a little turquoise-green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. Circular with lightly scalloped rim and deep curved sides, convex in the middle; the sides are moulded with gadroons radiating from the foot, which has been broken off leaving a short stump. A Triumph over the Sons of Pompey. On the left, a winged Victory holds a laurel wreath over Caesar's head while he stands in a chariot drawn by two horses. Three soldiers walk beside the chariot and a captive with his hands tied behind his back walks in front. Behind him there is a trumpeter and a group of soldiers with standards. The rim is yellow. The middle of the back is inscribed in black, `vinti li figli/di ponpeo' (The sons of Pompey vanquished), and there are three yellow bands round the edge. object type: Renaissance maiolica shallow bowl, painted in polychrome with A Triumph over the Sons of Pompey. title: bowl 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/73237 PEOPLE ------------------- soldier musician Caesar, Gaius Julius Victory SUBJECTS ------------------- chariot trumpet wreath horse (animal) chariot trumpet wreath horse (animal) TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, the reverse pale beige. There is a fault in the glaze on the reverse. Painted in blue, green, a little turquoise-green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, grey, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1575 - 1585 creation date earliest: 1575 creation date latest: 1585 culture: 16th Century, Late culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Urbino potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Taddeo Zuccaro as a designer for maiolica Maioliche del Museo Civico di Pesaro Some unpublished drawings for maiolica and Federigo Zuccaro's role in the Spanish Service The Art of the Italian Potter, Maiolica and Porcelain from a Private Collection Tin-glaze and Image Culture: the MAK Maiolica Collection in its Wider Context --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_221_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_221_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_221_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_221_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_221_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_221_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_221_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_221_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels