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

Bowl

1480-1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Small bowl, incised slipware, inside decorated with a male bust.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Incised slipware
Brief description
Red earthenware covered with a white slip and incised decoration of a young man's head in profile. The whole painted with oxides. Italian, perhaps Bologna, about 1480 to 1500
Physical description
Small bowl, incised slipware, inside decorated with a male bust.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6cm
  • Diameter: 11.8cm
  • Diameter: 11.8cm
Credit line
Bought
Object history
Bought from Mr. Charles Fairfax Murray, London
Bibliographic reference
Ajmar-Wollheim, Marta and Flora Dennis, At Home in Renaissance Italy, London: V&A Publishing, 2006.
Collection
Accession number
380-1889

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Record createdJune 8, 2006
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