IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80787 accession number: EC.36-1942 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 14 March 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and opaque white. There are three small spur marks in the well. Shape approximately 59 (Poole 1995), slightly convex in the middle. Circular with a broad rim, and deep curved well, slightly convex in the middle. The central medallion contains a landscape in which a stream of arrows speeds towards a young man who is bound to a stake, while a young woman is either tying him up or releasing him. The sides are decorated with bianco sopra bianco and orange Vs between rows of simulated beading. On the rim are grotesques reserved in a dark blue ground: four labels inscribed `1520', each flanked by cornucopiae and scrolls and surmounted by a winged putto's head, alternating with four grotesque masks, each flanked by dolphin scrolls and surmounted by a palmette. The rim is yellow. The middle of the back is painted in blue with three concentric circles, crossed by two lines. One quarter contains a small circle, the other three an arrow pointing towards the centre. Radiating from the base are two rows of blue petals, the inner row transversely striped in blue and the outer in orange. The spaces between the petals are filled with blue transverse lines, and three narrow concentric blue bands encircle the edge. object type: Painted in polychrome, with a man being fired at by arrows in a landscape, being released or tied up by a young woman title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Otto Beit; Sir Alfred Beit; Sotheby's, 16 October 1942, Catalogue of important Italian majolica, the property of Sir Alfred Beit Bt, MP, lot 22. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Leverton Harris Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80787 PEOPLE ------------------- man woman SUBJECTS ------------------- arrow tying releasing arrow tying releasing TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, pale green, yellow, orange, and opaque white. There are three small spur marks in the well. tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1520 - 1520 creation date earliest: 1520 creation date latest: 1520 culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: 'Assumption Painter' DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 28.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 title: The Fine Art and Antiques Fair title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr Otto Beit The Italian Exhibition, III, Maiolica Maiolica at the Exhibition of Italian Art Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900 A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January-March, l930 La raccolta Beit di maioliche italiane Corpus della maiolica italiana, I, Le maioliche datate al l530 Catalogue of important Italian majolica, the property of Sir Alfred Beit Bt, MP Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica Italian Maiolica in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_36_1942.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 737 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_EC_36_1942.jpg height: 516 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/EC_36_1942.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 737 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_EC_36_1942.jpg height: 258 pixels width: 250 pixels