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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Bowl

1533 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate depicting Actaeon transformed into a stag.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin glazed earthenware
Brief description
Broad-rimmed bowl with Actaeon transformed into a stag, painted by Francesco Xanto Avelli in Urbino and lustred in the workshop of Maestro Giorgio in Urbino or Gubbio, dated 1533
Physical description
Plate depicting Actaeon transformed into a stag.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 26cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Il misero Actaeon co[n]verso i[n] cervo Nel. III:I. de Ovidio. M. fra Xanto A. da Rovigo i Urbino'
Translation
The poor Actaeon changed into a stag. In Ovid, Metamorphoses, III
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Associated object
1700-1855 (Depiction)
Bibliographic reference
Mallet, J.V.G, Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance (London: The Wallace Collection, 2007)
Other number
725 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2206-1910

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Record createdApril 20, 2006
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