IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79299 accession number: EC.19-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed thickly overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, and orange. Circular with a broad, gently sloping rim and shallow central depression. In the middle, a putto with his arms behind his back stands on a pedestal. Below, two putti kneel on either side of a grotesque mask and a basket of fruit and leaves. The lower part of the ground is pale green, the rest is decorated with short looped ribbons, and military trophies comprising maces, pipes, drums and shields, with on the left and right, a cuirass, reserved in a dark blue ground. Two narrow blue bands encircle the edge. The back is decorated in blue with three branching plant sprays separated by pairs of curved lines and, on the edge, a narrow band. object type: Maiolica plate, painted in blue, green, yellow and orange, with a putto standing on a pedestal, surrounded by trophies, masks and shields. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 7 June 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 97. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79299 PEOPLE ------------------- putti SUBJECTS ------------------- pedestal mask basket trophies mace pipes drum shield cuirass fruit leaves pedestal mask basket trophies mace pipes drum shield cuirass fruit leaves TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed thickly overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, and orange. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1515 - 1525 creation date earliest: 1515 creation date latest: 1525 culture: Renaissance culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Castel Durante potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, II Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich Répertoire de la majolique italienne Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_19_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 738 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_EC_19_1939.jpg height: 515 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_19_1939.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 738 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_EC_19_1939.jpg height: 257 pixels width: 250 pixels