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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 145

Bowl

1583 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish on low foot with deep well. The wide rim has six oval indentations. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with grotesque decoration on white ground, signed: Gironimo urbin fecie 1583. The central medallion and the six oval indentations are painted with putti.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware; made in Lyon by Gironimo of Urbino, France, dated 1583.
Physical description
Dish on low foot with deep well. The wide rim has six oval indentations. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with grotesque decoration on white ground, signed: Gironimo urbin fecie 1583. The central medallion and the six oval indentations are painted with putti.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.7cm
  • Diameter: 39.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
Gironimo urbin fecie 1583 (Painted on the revers, in the centre of the foot. )
Transliteration
Gironimo of Urbine made me in 1583
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Wilson 2003. Wilson, Timothy. “Gironimo Tomasi et le plat marqué 1582 leon du British Museum”, in Jean Rosen (ed.), Majoliques européennes. Reflets de l’estampe lyonnaise (XVIe et XVIIe siècles). Actes des journées d’études internationales “Estampes et majoliques” Rome (12 octobre 1996) - Lyon (10, 11 et 12 octobre 1997), Dijon, pp. 86-101
  • CAT. 185 Neumann, Nicolas eds. Lyon Renaissance: Arts et Humanisme. Somogy éditions d’art: Paris, 2015. ISBN 9782757209912.
Other number
902 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
4354-1857

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Record createdMarch 16, 1999
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