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Temperance
Workshop: Domenego da Venezia
Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a woman representing Temperance.
Plate. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black.
Shape 51. Circular with gently sloping sides and small shallow well.
A woman representing Temperance stands holding a ewer in her right hand and a vase in her left. She wears a yellow skirt, a blue tunic and a purple cloak. In the foreground is a stony path, on the left, three trees, and in the distance, the sea or a lake with hills and buildings on the right. The rim is yellow.
History note: William Ridout; Christie's, 13 December 1938, The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware, lot 56; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.
Diameter: 24.8 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1550
-
1570
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black.
Inscription present: circular with serrated edge
Accession number: C.238-1991
Primary reference Number: 73420
Packing number: EURCER 685
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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