IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80698 accession number: C.2179-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 28 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the upper surfaces; base streaked with glaze. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple. Modelled in the form of a shallow tray with a Nativity group in the round at the back, a cylindrical inkwell on the right, and a smaller cylindrical candle socket (incorrectly restored) on the left. The Virgin Mary and St Joseph kneel on either side of a wattle stall occupied by an ox and an ass. The infant Christ lies on a wavy-edged cloth between them. In front of the figures is a space for pens, enclosed by a low wall, decorated on the exterior with strapwork. object type: maiolica inkstand with a three-dimensional Nativity group at the back, and an inkwell and candlesocket on either side title: inkstand NOTES ----- type: history note value: G.R. Harding & Sons, King Street, London, from whom purchased for £35 on 4 March 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80698 PEOPLE ------------------- St Joseph Virgin Mary Christ SUBJECTS ------------------- writing ox ass Nativity stable ox ass Nativity stable TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1509 - 1516 creation date earliest: 1509 creation date latest: 1516 culture: 16th Century, Early# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Giovanni di Nicola di Manzoni of Colle DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 17.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 21.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Madonnas and Miracles. The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Maioliche di Faenza Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Di un calamaio in maiolica del rinascimento al Museo delle Arti Applicati di Budapest I Calamai del Manzoni Madonnas and Miracles. The Holy Home in Renaissance Italy Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, Vol. II Italian Renaissance Maiolica Maiolica before Raphael. Italian ceramics before 1500 La Grazia dell'Arte. 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