IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73273 accession number: C.223-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance maiolica dish on low foot, painted in polychrome with putti and grotesques. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/73273 PEOPLE ------------------- putti herm grotesque SUBJECTS ------------------- horse (animal) lion horse (animal) lion TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded, and tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, manganese-brown, and black. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1570 - 1590 creation date earliest: 1570 creation date latest: 1590 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_223_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_223_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_223_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_223_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_223_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_223_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_223_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_223_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels