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Potter:
Unidentified Urbino potter
(Probably)
Printmaker:
Floris, Cornelis II
(After)
Renaissance maiolica plate, painted in polychrome with a river or water god sitting over two dolphins, tritons, grotesques, and Neptune driving a chariot
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse, pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black. Shape 51. Circular with sloping sides and shallow central depression.
A river or water god sits over two dolphins. He holds a cornucopia and a jar of water, and has a headdress of bulrushes and perches for birds and animals. Above are two tritons holding entwined serpents, at the sides, grotesque terms, and below, mythical sea creatures. On the waves to right there is a chariot driven by Neptune holding a trident and, on the left, another occupied by a woman blowing a shell horn. The rim has a yellow and orange `rope' edging. The back is encircled by yellow bands: one inside and outside the foot, one a short way beyond it, and two by the outer edge.
History note: Comm. Giuseppe Cavalieri; Milan, Palazzo Cova, 25-30 May 1914, Catalogue de la collection de M. le Comm. Gius. Cavalieri, Ferrare. Objets d'art et de haute curiosité tableaux et dessins de maîtres anciens, lot 92 & pl. 4; Dr Alfred Pringsheim; Sotheby's, 20 July 1939, Catalogue of the renowned collection of Italian majolica, the property of Dr Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, lot 377 (1); H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950
Diameter: 26.1 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991-04-29) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
16th Century, Late
Renaissance
Circa
1570
CE
-
1600
CE
This unusual design reproduces, with the omission of minor details, a print by Cornelis Floris (1514-75) of Antwerp, from Veelderley niewe inuentien, Book II (H. Cock), 1557.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange, and black)
Moulding
: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse, pale beige and speckled. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and elack.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: oval with gold edge
Accession number: C.222-1991
Primary reference Number: 80613
Packing number: EURCER 374
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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