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Pottery: Unknown (Probably)
Maiolica plate, painted in dark blue and white with a bust of a bearded man in profile to right.
Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-blue overall. Painted in darker blue and white.
Circular with narrow sloping rim, curved well and recessed base.
A bust of a bearded man in profile to right, wearing a ruff and a doublet with three buttons. The background is shaded in blue, and close to the rim there is a faint blue band. On the back, interlacing petals outlined in blue radiate from the base.
History note: Sotheby's, 23 March 1926, Egyptian, Greek, Roman & Cypriote antiquities etc., lot 37; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Diameter: 20.4 cm
Height: 3.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, second half#
Renaissance
Circa
1550
CE
-
1600
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( darker blue and white)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-blue overall. Painted in darker blue and white.
Inscription present: rectangular
Accession number: C.234-1991
Primary reference Number: 73380
Packing number: EURCER 671
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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