IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77383 accession number: MAR.C.59-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and faintly tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 81. Shallow circular bowl with sixteen scallops round the rim and sides moulded with a radiating petal and lozenge pattern, originally standing on a low foot, now missing. Aaron arrayed in the High Priest's Garments accompanied by Moses and three other Israelites. In the foreground there are rocks, grass and a stony path; further back on the left, a tent; and in the landscape background, two tents, trees and hills. The edge is yellow. On the back, 'Aron gran sacerdote/e Moise' (Aaron high priest and Moses) inscribed in the middle in dark blue, and two yellow bands round the rim. object type: Maiolica shallow bowl, painted in polychrome, with Aaron arrayed in the High Priest's Garments accompanied by Moses and three other Israelites. title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Conte Ferdinando Pasolini Dall'Onda, Bologna, and/or Robert Napier; Christie's, 6 June 1877, Catalogue of the celebrated assemblage of works of art and vertu known as the Shandon Collection, formed during the last half-century by that well-known amateur Robert Napier, Esq. deceased, late of Glasgow, lot 2793. C.B. Marlay before 1887. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77383 PEOPLE ------------------- Aaron Moses High Priest Israelites SUBJECTS ------------------- tent tree rocks hills grass tent tree rocks hills grass TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and faintly tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1555 - 1575 creation date earliest: 1555 creation date latest: 1575 culture: 16th Century, third quarter culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Fontana Workshop maker: Salomon, Bernard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 27.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Specimens of Hispano-Moresque and Majolica Pottery exhibited in 1887 title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione Catalogue of Specimens of Hispano-Moresque and Majolica Pottery Exhibited in 1887 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/MAR_C_59_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_MAR_C_59_1912_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/MAR_C_59_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_MAR_C_59_1912_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/MAR_C_59_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_MAR_C_59_1912_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/MAR_C_59_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_MAR_C_59_1912_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels