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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Plate

ca.1530-1535 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate with painted decoration. Subject of Romulus and Remus probably copied from Xanto.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate, earthenware, painted in colour depicting Romulus and Remus, painted by Francesco Durantino, Italian, Urbino, ca. 1535
Physical description
Plate with painted decoration. Subject of Romulus and Remus probably copied from Xanto.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27cm
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection.
Bibliographic reference
Mallet, J.V.G, Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance (London: The Wallace Collection, 2007)
Collection
Accession number
1705-1855

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Record createdApril 20, 2006
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