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Maker/s	Mancini Workshop possibly (potter)
Category	tin-glazed earthenware maiolica
Name	basin dish
School/Style	Renaissance
Description	Shallow basin for a ewer. Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse has brown speckles and is tinged with green in two areas. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange. Shape approximately 71. Circular with a narrow rim, wide shallow well and flat centre surrounded by a circular rib. The basin has warped. In the middle is a beribboned shield of testa di cavallo form, charged with the arms of Colonna, or a column argent (shown as brownish-orange with a blue and white column), flanked by the letters `.VI' and `VA.'. The blue rib is surrounded by a border of blue and yellow half-flowers. The sides are decorated with formal plants and foliate scrolls bearing stylised fruits and flowers. On the rim is a border of bulbs and sprays of stylised flowers on a blue ground. The back is inscribed in the middle in blue with an `M' crossed, and round the rim are interlacing blue petals.
Production Place	Deruta (potter) (place) () Umbria (potter) (region) Italy (potter) (country)
Technique Description	Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse has brown speckles and is tinged with green in two areas. Painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange.
Dimensions	height: (whole): 3.7 cm diameter: (whole): 32.3 cm
Period	16th century
Date	circa 1530 to 1560
Provenance	bought: Cecil Leitch & Kerin Ltd. 1931 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Documentation	Rackham, Bernard A New Chapter in the History of Italian Maiolica, I Deruta, Source title: Burlington Magazine (April 1915) [comments: Publ. pl. I D] Rackham, Bernard (1935 (reprinted Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1987)) Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: p. 285] [comments: Publ. I, p. 285, no. 2195, II, pl. 168C] Bellini, Mario (1964) Maioliche italiane del Rinascimento, Milan [page: p. 125] [comments: Publ. p. 125] Poole, Julia E. (1995) Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: pp. 198-9] [comments: Publ. pp. 198-9, no. 272]
Other Notes
Accession Number	C.38-1931 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 74733; Input Date: 2002-06-17 / Last Edit: 2011-05-02)

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