IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 78812 accession number: EC.20-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange. Shape 53. Circular with a broad, almost flat rim and shallow well, slightly convex in the middle. In the well are five hounds attacking a bear, surrounded by a garland of leaves and berries. At the top of the rim is a medallion containing a palm, crossed by a wavy scroll inscribed `C/HI./LA.PVo/VE/R' (He who wants to have it/her ?), and, at the bottom, a similar medallion inscribed `P/AC/IEN/TI/A' (Pazienza: patience or pleasure). On the left and right of the rim are medallions containing respectively a bust of a young man in profile to right, and a bust of a Roman Emperor in profile to left. Between each medallion is an acanthus plant flanked by dragons addorsed and pennants on staves. The back is decorated in blue with a central `M' crossed surrounded by asterisks and dots, and twelve slanting stems of stylised foliage and dentated half-moon flowers radiating from the base to the edge. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Geremia Delsette; probably sold Paris, Delbergue, 12 April 1866. Andrew Fountaine IV (1808-73); his heir; Christie's, 16 June 1884, Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels . . ., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk, lot 45; Charles Mannheim; J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 31 March 1913); collection purchased by Joseph Duveen, 1916; Dr Alfred Israel Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 33. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/78812 PEOPLE ------------------- man Emperor SUBJECTS ------------------- hounds bear dragon plant attacking hounds bear dragon plant attacking TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 37.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Loan Exhibition of the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Di un'insigne raccolta di maioliche depinte delle fabbriche di Pesaro e della provincia metaurense Catalogue of the celebrated Fountaine collection of majolika, Henry II ware, Palissy ware, Nevers ware, Limoges enamels, carvings in ivory, hone stone and rock crystal, Greek and Roman coins, ancient armour &c. &c., removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk Collection Charles Mannheim, objets d'art A New Chapter in the History of Italian Maiolica, I Deruta Siena oder Deruta? Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich Répertoire de la majolique italienne Deruta maiolica: some new observations Maioliche italiane del Rinascimento Ceramiche Umbre dal Medioevo allo Storicismo, Parte Prima, Orvieto e Deruta The Fountaine collection of maiolica La ceramica di Deruta dal XIII al XVIII secolo Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 1913: il mancato catalogo della collezione di maiolica italiana di J. Pierpont Morgan Italian Maiolica and Europe The Golden Age of Maiolica-Painting. Catalogue of a Private Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_20_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 754 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_EC_20_1939.jpg height: 504 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_20_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 754 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_EC_20_1939.jpg height: 252 pixels width: 250 pixels