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A Battle between Caesar and Pompey | |
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Title/s | A Battle between Caesar and Pompey |
Maker/s | Leonardo di Antonio Bettisi (workshop) |
Collection | |
Category |
tin-glazed earthenware |
Name |
bowl |
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Description | Renaissance maiolica broad-rimmed bowl, painted in blue, yellow and orange with A Battle between Caesar and Pompey. Broad-rimmed bowl. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange. Shape approximately 59. Circular with broad sloping rim and deep well. A Battle between Caesar and Pompey. Troops of cavalry are drawn up on the right and left, the former moving forward to attack. Above, there is an oval shield charged with the arms of the Wittelsbach Dukes of Bavaria below a coronet. At the bottom of the rim is an inscription: `cavaleria di popeo simoue/cotra cesare' (Cavalry of Pompey advances against Caesar). A narrow blue band and a yellow band between two orange encircle the rim. The base is marked in brownish-orange `.DO.PI .'. |
Production Place | Faenza (workshop) (place) Emilia-Romagna (workshop) (region) Italy (workshop) (country) |
Technique Description | Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, yellow, and orange. |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 4.1
cm |
Period | 16th century |
Date | circa 1576 |
Provenance | bequeathed: Reitlinger, Henry Scipio 1950 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.H.S. Reitlinger Bequest |
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Other Notes | This dish bears the arms of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria and once formed part of a service which belonged to Albrecht V (ruled 1550-79). The service was probably made in 1576, the date on one dish. The original extent of the service is unknown, but an inventory of 1751 mentioned 116 pieces. Most of the service remains in Munich in the Residenzmuseum, and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. The service is decorated in compendiario style with scenes from the Bible, classical mythology, and Roman history, The scene on this dish is titled 'cavaleria di popeo simoue/cotra cesare (cavalry of Pompey advances against Caesar), and probably represents the battle between Caesar and Pompey at Pharsalus in 48BC, described in Appian's, Civil Wars, II, 11. |
Accession Number | C.179-1991 (Applied Arts) |
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