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

Forlì pavement

Tile
ca.1513-1523 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Octagonal tin-glazed earthenware pavement tile, with a blue and white foliate border around a yellow-coloured central reserve showing a full-face bust of the painter Melozzo da Forli, inscribed MELOTIVS PITOR. The reserve is painted in orange and opaque white on a yellow-stained enamel.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleForlì pavement (popular title)
Materials and techniques
painted tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Octagonal pavement tile, yellow, tin-glazed earthenware, Forlì, Italy, ca.1513-1523.
Physical description
Octagonal tin-glazed earthenware pavement tile, with a blue and white foliate border around a yellow-coloured central reserve showing a full-face bust of the painter Melozzo da Forli, inscribed MELOTIVS PITOR. The reserve is painted in orange and opaque white on a yellow-stained enamel.
Dimensions
  • Width: 14.5cm
Style
Object history
Decoration described by Rackham as "A full-faced bust of the painter Melozzo da Forli, inscribed MELOTIVS PITOR
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
279 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
30:103-1866

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Record createdAugust 13, 2012
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