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Potter: Unknown
Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with grotesques, divided by frames.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple. Shape 63. Circular with narrow, slightly sloping rim, shallow curved sides and almost flat centre, standing on a low footring.The well is decorated with a symmetrical arrangement of grotesques, divided by four curved yellow frames with orange stripes. On the sides are slanting blue squiggles alternating with vertical strokes and, above and below, a yellow band with orange stripes. The rim is decorated with similar grotesques, separated by pairs of curved frames. The rim is yellow with orange stripes.
History note: Unknown
Given by P.C. Wilson
Diameter: 41.7 cm
Height: 5.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1948) by Wilson, Peter C.
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1650
CE
The dish was accessioned as Urbino, late sixteenth century. However, the form of the grotesques, which terminate in comma-like scrolls filling in the background, indicate that it was more likely to have been made at Deruta during the first half of the seventeenth century.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse off-white. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Accession number: C.4-1948
Primary reference Number: 75008
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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