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An Abduction
Workshop: Domenego da Venezia
Renaissance maiolica deep dish, painted in polychrome with An Abduction, depicting a woman kneeling before a statue of Caesar, with soldiers restraining two women, in a landscape.
Deep dish. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. The surface is very glossy. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, brown, black, and white.
Shape 68. Circular with deep sides and flat everted rim, standing on a footring.
An Abduction. On the right a woman kneels before a statue of Caesar or a god on a high pedestal. Behind her, a soldier restrains a standing woman and, further to the left, another seizes a second woman. Further back are two men, one of whom has a quiver on his back, and looks into the distance. In the foreground to left are a tree and grass beside a stream, and in the background, a tree, the sea and a shoreline with distant mountains. Round the edge are two narrow blue bands with groups of short oblique strokes at intervals, and a yellow band on the rim. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue `.rapimento. digiganti -' (rape of or by the giants). The sides are decorated with concentric bands: yellow, blue, yellow, blue, two yellow.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 30.0 cm
Height: 6.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1560
-
1570
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, brown, black, and white)
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. The surface is very glossy. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, brown, black, and white.
Inscription present: circular with blue border
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.235-1991
Primary reference Number: 73392
Packing number: EURCER 388
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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