IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79759 accession number: MAR.C.61-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: Maiolica dish, painted in polychrome with Mount Parnassus, Apollo, Euterpe and Erato. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79759 PEOPLE ------------------- Morland, G.H. Apollo Euterpe Erato poet SUBJECTS ------------------- pipes trumpet lyre coat-of-arms trees Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus landscape Parnassus pipes trumpet lyre coat-of-arms trees Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus landscape Parnassus TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1530 - 1531 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1531 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Milan Marsyas Painter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 30.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Specimens of Hispano-Moresque and Majolica Pottery exhibited in 1887 title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: The Grand Atelier: Pathways opf Art in Europe 5th-18th Century CITATIONS -------- 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., 8-12 May 1866 Catalogue of Specimens of Hispano-Moresque and Majolica Pottery Exhibited in 1887 Xanto: i suoi compagni e seguaci Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Illustrated Bartsch: The Works of Marcantonio Raimondi and of his School, vols 26-27 Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux In Botega di Maestro Guido Durantino in Urbino Majolika. Spanische und Italienische Keramik vom 14. bis zum 18. 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