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Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar
Painter: Milan Marsyas Painter (Attributed to)
Maiolica broad-rimmed bowl, painted in polychrome with Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar with a coat-of-arms above
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Shape 57. Circular with a wide, almost flat rim and small deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with three bands of reeding.
Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar. Meleager stands on the left aiming his bow and arrow at the boar which is already wounded and fleeing towards the right. In the landscape background there are trees, hills and a town. Above, suspended from the branches of a tree, there is a shield of Tuscan form charged with the arms azure, three crescents addorsed argent (one above and two below). The edge is yellow.
Given by Alfred A. De Pass
Diameter: 19.3 cm
Height: 3.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1933-06-15) by de Pass, Alfred A.
16th Century, second quarter#
Renaissance
Production date:
circa
AD 1530
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white)
beige on the back
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white.
Painting
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: oval
Accession number: C.132-1933
Primary reference Number: 79972
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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