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Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar | |
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Title/s | Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar |
Maker/s | Milan Marsyas Painter attributed to (painter) |
Category |
tin-glazed earthenware |
Name |
bowl |
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Description | Maiolica broad-rimmed bowl, painted in polychrome with Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar. Broad-rimmed bowl. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. Shape 57. Circular with a wide, almost flat rim and small deep well; the underside of the rim moulded with three bands of reeding. Meleager hunting the Calydonian Boar. Meleager stands on the left aiming his bow and arrow at the boar which is already wounded and fleeing towards the right. In the landscape background there are trees, hills and a town. Above, suspended from the branches of a tree, there is a shield of Tuscan form charged with the arms azure, three crescents addorsed argent (one above and two below). The edge is yellow. |
Production Place | Urbino (painter) (place) The Marches (painter) (region) Italy (painter) (country) Italian (painter) (nationality) |
Technique Description | Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall; the reverse pale beige and tinged with green. Painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, black, and white. |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 3.2
cm |
Period | second quarter of 16th century |
Date | circa 1530 |
Provenance | given: de Pass, Alfred A. 1933 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Given by A.A. De Pass |
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Other Notes | The hunting of the Calydonian Boar is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, VIII, 270-444. The goddess Diana, offended by a slight, sent a gigantic and ferocious boar to terrorize Calydon. Meleager formed a band of his companions, including the fleet-footed Atalanta, to track down the boar and kill it. After a long and arduous hunt, Meleager succeeded in spearing it, and presented its skin and head to Atalanta. |
Accession Number | C.132-1933 (Applied Arts) |
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