IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80764 accession number: C.259-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall, except for a narrow irregular area near the base. Painted in greyish-blue, yellow, and orange. The vase has a globular body with tall cylindrical neck and two twisted handles curling up a little on each side of the lower end. On the front is an oval panel containing a three-quarter length figure of a woman holding a pot plant, and on the neck, a rectangular panel containing a nereid holding up a drape. Both have yellow grounds, which on the lower panel has orange curls round the edge. The panels are flanked by blue scrolling foliage on a white ground, and narrow panels of different scrolling foliage with a blue ground. The back is decorated with two yellow rosettes and buds amongst blue foliage. Round the lower part, and the top of the neck are yellow and orange horizontal bands and blue spots, which also occur on the shoulder at the back. object type: Maiolica two-handled vase, painted in polychrome with, on the front, an oval panel with a three-quarter length figure of a woman, surrounded by panels, scrolling foliage, roses and buds. title: two-handled vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: H.S. Reitlinger Bequest, 1950 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80764 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- plant plant TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Donne e Madonne tra Sei e Settecento nella maiolica di Laterza --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_259_1991.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 574 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_259_1991.jpg height: 662 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_259_1991.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 574 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_259_1991.jpg height: 331 pixels width: 250 pixels