IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80702 accession number: C.1-1955 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; underside unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black. Modelled in the round; hollow underneath. The old woman faces front, her head inclined to her right. She has a broad, smooth brow, a large nose, high cheek-bones, wide-set eyes and a slight double chin. Her mouth is set in a wide grimace showing the gaps in her teeth. She wears a close-fitting cap, half green, half yellow, with blue zig-zag stitching on the seams and two blue strings hanging down at the back. Her dress has a low neckline edged in yellow, above which is the top of her chemise, edged in blue and orange. The bodice is partly blue and partly green at the front, and partly manganese and partly brown with a black spiralling pattern at the back. Her right sleeve is purple and her left has a geometrical pattern in orange, yellow and black. She has a square jewel on a cord round her brow and a string of beads round her neck. object type: Maiolica bust of an old woman, painted in polychrome. title: bust NOTES ----- type: history note value: Benjamin Fillon by 1878; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 22 March 1882, Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité . . . composant la collection de feu Benjamin Fillon, lot 289, and pl. p. 112. Henry Oppenheimer; Christie's, 15 July 1936, Catalogue of the highly important collection of Italian majolika and bronzes, jewels, enamels, ivories, sculpture and works of art formed by the late Henry Oppenheimer Esq., FSA of 9 Kensington Palace Gardens, W 8., lot 46; purchased through Durlacher by Louis C.G. Clarke, Leckhampton House, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by L.C.G. Clarke STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80702 PEOPLE ------------------- Fillon, Benjamin Oppenheimer, Henry (1859-1932) woman SUBJECTS ------------------- bust bust TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the exterior; underside unglazed. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, orange, manganese-purple, and black. modeling (forming) CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1490 - 1510 creation date earliest: 1490 creation date latest: 1510 culture: 15th Century, Late culture: 16th Century, Early# culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: L'art ancien à l'exposition de 1878 title: Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: La scultura al tempo di Andrea Mantegna CITATIONS -------- L'art ancien à l'exposition de 1878 Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité . . . composant la collection de feu Benjamin Fillon Le maioliche italiane all'Esposizione di Londra Maiolica at the Exhibition of Italian Art A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, l930 Catalogue of the highly important collection of Italian majolika and bronzes, jewels, enamels, ivories, sculpture and works of art formed by the late Henry Oppenheimer Esq., FSA of 9 Kensington Palace Gardens, W 8. Il X corso di storia e di tecnica della ceramica Répertoire de la majolique italienne Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1955 La maiolica italiana sino alla comparsa della porcellana europea The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey Sele Arte The Concise Encyclopedia of Continental Pottery and Porcelain Louis Clarke as a Collector Italian maiolica of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica La scultura al tempo di Andrea Mantegna --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_1_1955_1_201303_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_1_1955_1_201303_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_1_1955_1_201303_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_1_1955_1_201303_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_1_1955_2_201303_adn21_dc2.jpg 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