IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73453
accession number:	C.240-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Plate. Cream earthenware, tin-glazed cream overall; reverse tinged with green and speckled with blue. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black.
Shape 51. Circular with sloping rim and shallow well, slightly convex in the centre.
Venus after her Bath. The nude goddess wearing a headscarf sits on a rock while she dries her right foot with a towel. In the foreground are grass and a stony path, on the left, a rock, and in the distance, hills and sky. A narrow blue band and a wider yellow band encircle the rim.
object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Venus after her Bath.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Kerin, London, from whom purchased for £1.1.0 in May 1918 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73453

PEOPLE
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Venus

SUBJECTS
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towel
path
rock
hills
grass
towel
path
rock
hills
grass



TECHNIQUES
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Cream earthenware, tin-glazed cream overall; reverse tinged with green and speckled with blue. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1550 - 1570
creation date earliest:	1550
creation date latest:	1570
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Domenego da Venezia
maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio
maker: Sanzio, Raffaello

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 20.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.1



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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