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Maker/s	Unknown (potter)
Category	tin-glazed earthenware maiolica (sub-category)
Name	plate
School/Style	Renaissance
Description	Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white overall; the reverse tinged with dark pink in several places. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and opaque white. Shape 50. Circular with a slight depression in the middle. The plate has warped during firing. The central medallion contains a beribboned shield charged with the arms argent, a fess gules (shown orange) between three crescents vert, two and one, a chief of Anjou, surrounded by blue concentric circles and radiating petals in bianco sopra bianco. Round the rim is a blue border comprising four concentric circles of different widths, a band of lozenges with dots in the spaces, and narrow and wide concentric circles. On the back, interlacing blue petal outlines radiate from the base.
Production Place	Deruta (potter) (place) Umbria (potter) (region) Italy (potter) (country)
Technique Description	Buff earthenware. The front tin-glazed; the reverse lead-glazed greenish-beige; the area inside the footring unglazed. Painted in blue, green, yellow, darker yellow, and manganese-brown.
Dimensions	height: (whole): 2.8 cm diameter: (whole): 22.3 cm
Period	16th century Renaissance
Date	circa 1520 to 1550
Provenance	bequeathed: Harris, F. Leverton 1926 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Unknown F. Leverton Harris Bequest, 1926
Inscriptions/Marks	label Position: on back Method: inscribed in black ink Content: Leverton Harris/Bequest/1926 Description: circular Interpretation: label Position: on back Method: inscribed in black ink Content: C.57/1927/(M.14) Description: circular Interpretation: Museum label
Documentation	Borenius, Tancred (1931) The Leverton Harris Collection, London: Privately printed [comments: Publ. pl. XV] Poole, Julia E. (1995) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: pp. 190-1] [comments: Publ. pp. 190-1, no. 266]
Other Notes
Accession Number	C.57-1927 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 48648; Input Date: 2002-06-07 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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