IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73420 accession number: C.238-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a woman representing Temperance. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73420 PEOPLE ------------------- Temperance SUBJECTS ------------------- ewer vase trees hills buildings path sea lake ewer vase trees hills buildings path sea lake TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Domenego da Venezia DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of the Collection of Italian and other Maiolica, Mediaeval English Pottery, Dutch, Spanish and French Faïence, and other Ceramic Wares, formed by William Ridout of London and Toronto The William Ridout collection of Italian majolica, European pottery, faience and delftware Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_238_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_238_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_238_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_238_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_238_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_238_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_238_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_238_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels