IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73931
accession number:	C.270-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and white.Circular with narrow rim and deep curved well, standing on a footring.
The Betrothal or Marriage of the Virgin. Mary and Joseph stand on either side of the High Priest in a room with a tiled floor. Two men stand watching on the right, and two women and a child on the left with the heads of two more men behind them. A narrow blue and wider yellow band encircle the edge. On the back, `SAN MATHEO/CAPI' inscribed in blue inside the footring, one yellow band round the foot, two on the shoulder, and one before the rim.
object type: Renaissance maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with The Betrothal or Marriage of the Virgin.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Perhaps the `Lyons tazza w. a marriage scene c. 1590' purchased in June 1918 from Simmons, Hanway Co., 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/73931

PEOPLE
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Virgin Mary
Joseph
High Priest
men
women
child

SUBJECTS
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temple
The Betrothal of the Virgin
temple
The Betrothal of the Virgin



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, manganese-purple, and white.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1580 - 1590
creation date earliest:	1580
creation date latest:	1590
culture:	16th Century, Late
culture:	Renaissance

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 29.1

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.7



CITATIONS
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Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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