IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73466
accession number:	C.241-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Cupid, sitting on a pedestal in a landscape.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


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/73466

PEOPLE
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Cupid

SUBJECTS
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arrow
shrub
grass
path
hills
buildings
arrow
shrub
grass
path
hills
buildings



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed pale beige overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, black, and white.
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

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 20.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of valuable bronzes and statuary . . . Italian majolica etc., the property of the late J.P. Heseltine Esq., of 91 Eaton Square S.W.
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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