IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76261 accession number: C.87-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is thin, off-white, and tinged with green. Painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, inky blue-black, black, and white. Shape 56 but shallower. Circular with a sloping rim and broad, shallow well. Seleucus II escaping from his Fleet after it had been wrecked by a Storm. On the left, Seleucus, bearing a shield inscribed 'SELEVCO', flees from the shore. In the middle, a man holding an oar and a warrior with a shield stand on a ship with a broken mast. On the right, a man with his back to the viewer stands on a ship, and another lies on the jetty. In the background there are three more ships with storm clouds above. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: '.1533./Della sua Classe sol/Seleuco scampa./Nel .XXVII. libro d Iustino/ Histo:/.f.X.A.R./i Urbino.' (From his fleet only Seleucus escapes.In the 27th book of Justin's History:.Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo in Urbino.). The base is encircled by one yellow band and the rim by two. object type: Maiolica plate. Painted in polychrome with Seleucus II escaping from his Fleet after it had been wrecked by a Storm. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lieut-Col. Auberon Claud Kennard (1870-1951), London; Sotheby's, 25 June 1931, Catalogue of two pieces of Henri II ware, fine Italian maiolica, Rhodian and other faience from a few well-known private collections comprising . . . the property of Lieut-Col. Auberon Kennard, 29 Sloane Gardens, S.W. 3., lot 8; Louis C.G. Clarke, LL.D. (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: L.C.G. Clarke Bequest, 1960 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76261 PEOPLE ------------------- Kennard, Auberon Claud Hegan Seleucus II Callinicus (246 BC-225 BC) sailors warrior SUBJECTS ------------------- ships oar shield escaping shipwreck shore ships oar shield escaping shipwreck shore TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the glaze on the reverse is thin, off-white, and tinged with green. Painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, inky blue-black, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1533 - 1533 creation date earliest: 1533 creation date latest: 1533 culture: 16th Century, second quarter# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Monogrammist I. B. maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 28.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of two pieces of Henri II ware, fine Italian maiolica, Rhodian and other faience from a few well-known private collections comprising . . . the property of Lieut-Col. Auberon Kennard, 29 Sloane Gardens, S.W. 3. Six majoliques signées de Francesco Xanto Avelli au Musée des Arts décoratifs de Lyon: sources et iconographie Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogo completo dell'opera grafica di Georg Pencz --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_87_1961_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_87_1961_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_87_1961_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_87_1961_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_87_1961_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_87_1961_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_87_1961_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_87_1961_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels