IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76280 accession number: C.88-1961 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 9 May 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Maiolica dish on low foot. Painted in polychrome with The Contest between Apollo and Pan. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor, Louis C.G. Clarke, MA, 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76280 PEOPLE ------------------- Apollo Pan SUBJECTS ------------------- lyre bank mountains landscape rock Contest between Apollo and Pan lyre bank mountains landscape rock Contest between Apollo and Pan TECHNIQUES ---------- Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale greyish-beige. Painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1531 - 1531 creation date earliest: 1531 creation date latest: 1531 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio maker: Dente, Marco (Marco da Ravenna) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_88_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_88_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_88_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_88_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_88_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_88_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_88_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_88_1961_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels