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Maker: Unidentified Urbino potter
Renaissance maiolica salt, painted in poychrome with a nymph, masks, herms and female nudes.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the base off-white. Painted in pale blue, dark blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white. Hexagonal with tall concave sides and projecting top with an oval depression in the middle and grotesque male masks on the angles. Below the masks there are male and female caryatids each terminating in a leaf and a scroll. On the base scars have been left by the removal of three feet.
The depression for salt is decorated with a nymph holding a green drape behind her reserved in a blue ground enclosed by a yellow and orange border. The rest of the top is blue with darker blue petals radiating from the depression. The masks are yellow and orange with green hair; the moulding below, blue, yellow, and orange. The herms are pale orange-brown, the leaves green, and the scrolls pale and dark blue. Each side is decorated with a female nude holding a drape, reserved in a black ground.
History note: Bowring Hanbury, London; Knight, Frank & Rutley, 17 July 1934, Catalogue of porcelain, pictures, miniatures, silver, furniture, etc. removed from a West-End mansion, part of lot 18; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Height: 20.0 cm
Length: 27.2 cm
Width: 22.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, third quarter#
Renaissance
Circa
1550
CE
-
1560
CE
This object may not originally have been a salt.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( pale blue, dark blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the base off-white. Painted in pale blue, dark blue, green, yellow, orange, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.228-1991
Primary reference Number: 73308
Packing number: EURCER 387
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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