IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73564
accession number:	C.247-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Dish. Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-blue overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinner than on the front and unevenly applied. The glaze on the front has crazed. Painted in blue.
Shape approximately 68 with shallower sides. Circular with shallow curved sides turning outwards at the rim, standing on a footring.
The muse Erato, playing a long horn, sits facing to the right on a rectangular block, inscribed on the left side `SL' [on top of each other] and `1618' with an arrow pointing upwards. The name  `+ ERATONE' is inscribed to the right of her. A wreath of leaves encircles the rim.
object type: Maiolica dish, painted in blue with the muse Erato, playing a long horn.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably Sotheby's, 2 May 1864, lot 143; sold to Wareham. Perhaps Marquis d'Azeglio; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-17 March 1868, Catalogue de faïences italiennes et autres ainsi que d'objets d'art et de curiosité . . . formant la collection de M. le Marquis d'Azeglio, lot 87. H.S. Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust.


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/73564

PEOPLE
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Erato

SUBJECTS
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horn
music
horn
music



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed pale greyish-blue overall; the glaze on the reverse is thinner than on the front and unevenly applied. The glaze on the front has crazed. Painted in blue.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1618 - 1618
creation date earliest:	1618
creation date latest:	1618
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 23.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.9



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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