IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73239 accession number: C.2215-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior and lead-glazed brownish-yellow on the interior. Painted in blue with traces of blackish-brown enamel and a little gilding on the rosette surrounding the spigot. Ovoid with a short narrow neck and everted and stepped rim. Just above the base is a convex horizontal rib, over which at centre front is an applied rosette with a central aperture for the insertion of a gilt-metal spigot, in the shape of a monster's head with a dolphin tap. Further up is another convex horizontal rib with a grotesque mask in relief at centre front and, on opposing sides, projecting shell-shaped handles. The decoration is divided into five horizontal bands of different widths. The first, fourth and fifth bands from the bottom are painted with hares, lambs, unicorns, horses and foxes, mostly in pairs, amid flowering plants. The second and third are painted with foliage and flowers on scrolling stems, with birds and animals in the spaces. The lower of the two ribs is decorated with formal leaves with remnants of outlining in blackish-brown. The upper rib is decorated with alternating fleur-de-lis and sprays of leaves, similarly outlined. The neck is encircled by a fruiting vine branch with a formal border and two plain bands above. object type: Maiolica cistern, painted in blue, with bands of hares, lambs, unicorns, horses and foxes, mostly in pairs, amid flowering plants, bands with foliage and flowers on scrolling stems, with birds and animals in the spaces, and rib and neck decoration of leaves, fleur-de-lis, and fruiting vine branch. title: cistern NOTES ----- type: history note value: Private collection, Munich; on death of the owner, sold by legatee to Adolf Steinharter, 25 Residenz-strasse, Munich, from whom purchased on 15 August 1905 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73239 PEOPLE ------------------- grotesque SUBJECTS ------------------- unicorn hare lamb horse (animal) Fox plants grapes vines unicorn hare lamb horse (animal) Fox plants grapes vines CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 59.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 49.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica Maioliche italiane del Seicento e Settecento Antiche ceramiche liguri. Maioliche di Genova e Savona Ceramica italiana dalle origini a oggi Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Per una storia della ceramica torinese del’600 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/mid_C_2215_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/preview_C_2215_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/mid_C_2215_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/preview_C_2215_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/mid_C_2215_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/preview_C_2215_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/mid_C_2215_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_2215_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/preview_C_2215_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_2215_1928_285_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 583 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_2215_1928_285_29.jpg height: 652 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_2215_1928_285_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 583 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_2215_1928_285_29.jpg height: 326 pixels width: 250 pixels