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Maker: Unidentified Tuscan pottery (District)
Renaissance, maiolica dish, painted in red, green and brown with a star surrounded by leaves and almond-shapes.
Red earthenware, the front tin-glazed, the reverse unglazed. Painted in green, yellow, and manganese-brown.
Shape 48. Circular with narrow, slightly sloping rim, deep sides and flat centre.
In the middle, a yellow six-pointed star is imposed on a green and white rosette, surrounded by six loops enclosing green ovoid leaves, and almond-shapes with serrated motifs over them. The background is cross-hatched in manganese and surrounded by a yellow circle. The sides are decorated with lanceolate leaves alternating with squiggles. The rim is divided by yellow and manganese stripes into ten panels filled with horizontal green and manganese scales or leaves.
History note: Wilhelm von Bode; Kurt Glogowski; Sotheby's, 8 June 1932, Catalogue of the well-known collection of important Italian majolica, also bronzes and statuary, velvets, textiles and embroideries, fine Oriental rugs, & c. the property of Herr Kurt Glogowski of Berlin, lot 33.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Diameter: 43 cm
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1932-06-08) by Sotheby's
15th Century, first half
Renaissance
Circa
1420
CE
-
1450
CE
Probably made in Florence or its district between about 1420 and 1450
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( green, yellow, and manganese-brown)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Throwing : Red earthenware, the front tin-glazed, the reverse unglazed. Painted in green, yellow, and manganese-brown.
Accession number: C.25-1932
Primary reference Number: 81378
Glaisher additions number number: Gl.Add.43-1932
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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