Current Location: In storage
Titles
The Descent from the Cross
Maker(s)
Painter:
Unknown
Engraver:
Raimondi, Marcantonio
Entities
Categories
Description
Maiolica dish on a low foot, painted in polychrome, with The Descent from the Cross.
Pale yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, brown, and black. Shape 78. Circular with shallow upturned sides, standing on a footring, replacing a higher foot.
The Descent from the Cross. Four men, two on each of two ladders, are lowering Christ from the Cross while the four Marys grieve at its foot. In the background to left there is a castle beside the massive arch of a ruined arcade, and to the right, a column with a broken architrave above it. The edge is yellow. The middle of the back is inscribed in blue, `1542/Qui se dimostra cômo il nasari' (Here is shown how the Nazarene) and there are two yellow bands round the edge.
Notes
History note: Possibly Countess Baldovinetti, Florence; sold Paris, Hotel des commissaires priseurs, rue Drouot, 5, M. Ridel, commissaire-priseur, 10-11 April 1854, Catalogue d'une jolie collection de majoliques italiennes . . . . provenant du Palais de Mme la Comtesse` Baldoniretti [sic], de Florence , pp. 8-9, lot 46. C.B. Marlay, London by whom bequeathed.
Legal notes
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 27.8 cm
Height: 4.8 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1912)
by
Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Dating
16th Century, Mid
Production date:
AD 1542
: dated
Note
Probably made in Urbino or Verona
The source for the figures was the Descent from the Cross, engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael. The background is entirely different and there are minor differences in the position of the ladders and figures.
School or Style
Renaissance
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, brown, and black)
Materials used in production
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Tin-glazing
: Pale yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige. Painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, orange, brown, and black.
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 1542/Qui se dimostra cômo il nasari
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: MAR.C.63-1912
Primary reference Number: 77385
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
