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Maker: Unknown
Maiolica plate, painted in blue, yellow, orange and white, with a twelve-pointed figure, surrounded by grotesques, heads, shells, dolphins, and scrolls.
Earthenware, tin-glazed pale blue overall. Painted in dark blue, yellow, orange, and white. Shape 54 (Poole 1995) but less convex in the middle. The central medallion contains a blue rosette within a yellow twelve-pointed figure, the spaces between the points filled with orange dotted in white. The sides of the well are painted in white with stylised foliage. The rim is decorated with grotesques reserved in a dark blue ground: winged cherubs' heads, dolphins, cornucopiae, shells, and scrolls. On the back is a crossed circle with a small circle in one quarter, surrounded by two concentric circles. The well and rim are decorated with four rosettes separated by radial squiggles. Pairs of bands encircle the base and outer edge.
History note: Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd, London
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Diameter: 24.3 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-10-18) by Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd.
16th Century, Early#
Renaissance
Circa
1515
CE
-
1530
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( in blue, yellow, orange, green, and white)
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed lavender-blue overall; the reverse uneven and with numerous pin holes. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, green, and white.
Inscription present: a crossed circle with a small circle in one quarter
Accession number: C.42-1931
Primary reference Number: 75032
Additional Glaisher number: Gl. Add.33-1931
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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