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Inkstand with River God
Workshop: Patanazzi family (Probably)
Renaissance maiolica inkstand, painted in polychrome, with a moulded river god on the top and grotesques decorated on the sides.
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for the edge of the base. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white. Rectangular with projecting mouldings at the top and bottom, and a drawer at the front. A slightly raised platform on the top supports a river god who reclines with his left elbow resting on an urn with water flowing from it. Behind him to the left there is a clump of reeds and on the front left corner, a vase for ink.
The river god, reeds and water are coloured naturalistically. The sides are decorated with grotesques in narrow panels framed by yellow and orange, and blue and white, borders. The inkwell is spattered to resemble coloured marble, and the urn is streaked in yellow and orange.
History note: V.H. Bowring Hanbury; 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
Depth: 17.8 cm
Height: 21 cm
Width: 22.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
17th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1575
CE
-
1605
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white)
except for the edge of the base
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for the edge of the base. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Accession number: C.229 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 73313
Packing number: EURCER 324
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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