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Workshop: Domenego da Venezia
Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Cupid, sitting on a pedestal in a landscape.
Plate. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Shape 51. Circular with gently sloping rim and shallow well, slightly convex in the middle.
Cupid, wearing a pale purple drape and holding an arrow, sits on a rectangular pedestal in a landscape with grass and stony paths in the foreground, a bare shrub on the left, and blue hills and buildings in the background. A blue band and a wider yellow band encircle the rim.
History note: J.P. Heseltine; Sotheby's, 24 May 1935, Catalogue of valuable bronzes and statuary . . . Italian majolica etc., the property of the late J.P. Heseltine Esq., of 91 Eaton Square S.W., lot 90 (1); H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Diameter: 20.2 cm
Height: 2.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1550
-
1570
Decoaration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white)
Decoration
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Inscription present: remains of a circular label with serrated edge
Inscription present: or 2873/SC5
Accession number: C.241-1991
Primary reference Number: 73466
Packing number: EURCER 673
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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