Dish: C.223-1991

Maker(s)

Workshop: Unknown (Probably)

Entities

• Dish
• dish on low foot

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

Renaissance maiolica dish on low foot, painted in polychrome with putti and grotesques.

Dish on low foot. Earthenware, moulded, and tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, manganese-brown, and black.
Shape 81. Circular with scalloped rim of sixteen arcs, curved sides and convex centre, standing on a low foot.
The central medallion is framed by guilloche ornament between yellow and orange simulated beading and narrow orange bands. It contains two putti holding a panel inscribed `SPQR' (Senatus Populusque Romanus) with a winged horse above and a pseudo-cameo below. Underneath, a herm holds up the entwined tails of two recumbent lions. The sides are decorated with radiating grotesques: fauns holding shields, birds, herms, winged sphinxes, monsters, and two pseudo-cameos. Round the edge there is a border of guilloche ornament, simulated beading, and orange scallops over a yellow band. On the back there are yellow and orange bands on the edge of the foot and at the junction of foot and bowl, two yellow bands below the rim, and one on it.

Notes

History note: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 20 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 379; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991

Legal notes

H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

16th Century
Renaissance
Circa 1570 CE - 1590 CE

Note

Possbily made in the Fontana or Patanazzi workshops

School or Style

Renaissance