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Painter: Milan Marsyas Painter (Probably)
Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with Mount Parnassus, Apollo, Euterpe and Erato.
Pale yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. There is a fault in the glaze on the left of the rim and on the reverse it is pale beige and thinly applied. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, grey, and white.
Shape 55. Circular with broad, sloping rim, shallow well and convex centre.
Parnassus. In the middle, Apollo sits playing a lyre in front of three trees. On the left, the Muse Euterpe sits holding a trumpet, and on the right, the Muse Erato, holding pipes. On each side a poet stands beside a tree; the one on the left looks away from the central group, the other towards it, holding his right index finger to his lips. Behind the figures there is a landscape and below, a window frame. On the upper right side there is a shield of Tuscan form, charged with the arms azure, an eagle displayed argent. The edge is yellow.
History note: G.H. Morland; Christie's, 11 May 1866, Catalogue of a very choice and important collection of objects of art and vertu formed during a long series of years by that well-known connoisseur G.H. Morland Esq., lot 463; sold to Whitehead. C.B. Marlay before 1887.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 30.7 cm
Height: 4.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century
Renaissance
Circa
1530
CE
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1531
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, grey, and white)
Tin-glazing : Pale yellowish buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. There is a fault in the glaze on the left of the rim and on the reverse it is pale beige and thinly applied. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, grey, and white.
Accession number: MAR.C.61-1912
Primary reference Number: 79759
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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