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The Contest between Apollo and Pan
Painter:
Avelli, Francesco Xanto
Printmaker:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
(After)
Printmaker:
Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna)
(After)
Maiolica dish on low foot. Painted in polychrome with The Contest between Apollo and Pan.
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale greyish-beige. Painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Shape 79 with vertical edge to foot. Circular with low curved sides and flat centre, standing on a low foot.
The Contest between Apollo and Pan. In the middle, Apollo, holding a lyre, sits in front of a tall rock. Pan reclines on a river bank in the foreground. On the left, two elderly bearded men, one wearing a cloak, stand in front of a variegated marble column at the end of a building. On the right a bearded man wearing a turban, steps forward pointing his left hand towards the two men opposite. On the extreme right there are two trees, and in the background, distant mountains and sky. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: `.1531./De Apollo & Pa gli musi/cali acceti./.favola./fra
Xanto, Au: Ro/vigiesei Urbino/pi:' (About Apollo and Pan the musical accents. fable. francesco Xanto, Avelli Rovigiese in Urbino Pinse:). A yellow band encircles the outer edge.
History note: Unknown before donor, Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, LL.D (1881-1960), Leckhampton, Cambridge
L.C.G. Clarke Bequest
Diameter: 26.7 cm
Height: 5.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961-04-27) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
16th Century
Production date:
AD 1531
: dated
The decorator, Francesco Xanto, was a freelance maiolica painter, who usually created scenes by combining figures from prints. The figures here were taken from four prints: Apollo from Parnassus by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael; the man on the right from Simon in Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee by Marcantonio after Raphael but reversed on the dish; the two men on the left from the Martyrdom of St Lawrence by Marcantonio after Baccio Bandinelli; and the reclining figure of Pan probably from the Battle of the Romans and Carthaginians, engraved by Marco Dente after Raphael or Giulio Romano.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white)
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale greyish-beige. Painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white.
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.88-1961
Primary reference Number: 76280
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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