IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 79992 accession number: C.10-1953 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; there is a fault in the glaze on the left of the front; the reverse is off-white. Painted in blue, green, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. Shape 52. Circular with a wide, gently sloping rim and shallow well, slightly and unevenly convex in the middle. Orlando finds Ruggiero's Charger Frontino, his Armour and Sword on board an abandoned Ship. Oliver stands on the right holding Ruggiero's armour. Brandimarte is aboard the ship, holding out his arms towards Frontino, who is partly hidden by three shields and an awning. Orlando, girt with the sword Balisarda, sits with his back to the viewer on a rock in the foreground. Hanging from the mast is a shield, charged with the Pucci arms argent, a moor's head proper wearing a headband argent charged with three hammers sable, with behind, a papal ombrellino. In the background to left there is a tree, and on the right, a rocky island. The edge is yellow. The back is inscribed in the middle in dark blue: `.1532./Nel agitato Legno truova/Orlando di Ruggier' l'armi/Nel.XXXVII. cato del furioso d/.M.L. Ariosto./fra: Xato .A./da Rouigoi /Urbino.' (In the tossing vessel Orlando finds Ruggiero's arms, In the 37th canto of the furioso of Messer Ludovico Ariosto. Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo in Urbino.). object type: Maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with Orlando finds Ruggiero's Charger Frontino, his Armour and Sword on board an abandoned Ship. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Rev. Thomas A. Berney by 1862; Miss Berney; Sotheby's, 18 June 1946, Catalogue of fine Italian majolica, medieval and renaissance works of art, etc. . . . The property of Miss Berney formed by the late Rev. Thomas A. Berney, Bracon Hall, Norfolk, lot 22; Alfred Spero; Marmaduke Langdale Horn (1890-1953), Stoke Charity, near Winchester. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: M.L. Horn Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/79992 PEOPLE ------------------- Horn, Marmaduke Langdale (1889-1953) Orlando Ruggiero SUBJECTS ------------------- armour sword ship shield coat-of-arms shipwreck shore armour sword ship shield coat-of-arms shipwreck shore TECHNIQUES ---------- Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; there is a fault in the glaze on the left of the front; the reverse is off-white. Painted in blue, green, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, stone, brown, manganese-purple, black, and white. tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1532 - 1532 creation date earliest: 1532 creation date latest: 1532 culture: 16th Century culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Avelli, Francesco Xanto maker: Raimondi, Marcantonio DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance and More Recent Periods title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of fine Italian majolica, medieval and renaissance works of art, etc. . . . The property of Miss Berney formed by the late Rev. Thomas A. Berney, Bracon Hall, Norfolk Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance and More Recent Periods The Berney Collection of Italian Maiolica Francesco Xanto Avelli's Pucci Service (1532-1533): Part Two Francesco Xanto Avelli's Pucci Service (1532-1533: Part One The Robert Lehman Collection X Italian Majolica Xanto and Ariosto Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Ceramics. 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_10_1953.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 757 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_10_1953.jpg height: 502 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: 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