Roundel
1525 (dated)
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| Place of origin |
The Three Graces were the classical personifications of charm, grace and beauty. Their poses here are based on a print showing an ancient Roman sculpture, which itself was a copy of an earlier Greek sculpture. There was a version of the Roman copy in Siena, in the
library that Cardinal Piccolomini built alongside the cathedral.
library that Cardinal Piccolomini built alongside the cathedral.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre |
| Brief description | Roundel with the Three Graces, tin-glazed earthenware with lustre, Italian, 1525 |
| Physical description | A roundel bearing a depiction of the Three Graces. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 1525 Mo Go
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| Gallery label | DISH with the Three Graces
1525
Probably by Xanto Avelli (about 1487-1542) in the workshop of Giorgio Andreoli (1465-1553)
This dish is based on an engraving by the 16th-century Italian printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi. He took the composition from a Roman marble at Siena Cathedral, one of the most copied sculptures at this period. Xanto specialised in a style of maiolica in which the whole surface was covered with a painted scene. It was known as 'istoriato' (illustrated).
Italy, Perugia
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre
Museum no. 175-1885(2008) |
| Object history | First recorded as at Rome, 1849, and bought two years later by Roussel, according to a note by J. C. Robinson, from a shop near S. Andrea della Valle; Lord Amherst of Hackney, who sold it to his uncle, Andrew Fountaine; purchased at the Fountaine sale by Beckett Denison at whose sale it was bought by the dealer Whitehead for the South Kensington Museum. |
| Production | Made in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio; possibly painted by Francesco Xanto Avelli |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | The Three Graces were the classical personifications of charm, grace and beauty. Their poses here are based on a print showing an ancient Roman sculpture, which itself was a copy of an earlier Greek sculpture. There was a version of the Roman copy in Siena, in the library that Cardinal Piccolomini built alongside the cathedral. |
| Bibliographic reference | Mallet, J.V.G, Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance (London: The Wallace Collection, 2007) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 175-1885 |
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| Record created | November 10, 2005 |
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