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

Jug

1400-50 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Faenza (made)

Jug of tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours. Pear-shaped, spreading foot, loop handle, spout missing. Painted in bluish-green and manganese with a shield of arms and helmet with crest (a lion's head crowned) and mantling.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Jug
Materials and techniques
Tin-glaze earthenware painted in colours
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Painted
Brief description
Jug of tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours, Faenza, Italy, ca. 1400-50
Physical description
Jug of tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours. Pear-shaped, spreading foot, loop handle, spout missing. Painted in bluish-green and manganese with a shield of arms and helmet with crest (a lion's head crowned) and mantling.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25cm (Note: conversion from inches)
Gallery label
  • Jug, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours Found in excavations at Faenza Italian (Faenza), 15th century Formerly in the Argnani and Henry Wallis Collections Bought from Harold Wallis(1922)
  • Found at Faenza; 14th or early 15th century(post 1922 and pre 1952)
  • Dug up at Faenza; late 14th or early 15th century(1952)
  • 15. Jug with unknown heraldic arms Italy (Faenza), 1400-1500 Earthenware painted with colours into the opaque tin-glaze Heraldic designs show that tin-glazed ceramics were prized by Italian noble families. Museum no. C.6-1922. Bought from H. Wallis Collection.(2007)
Object history
Bought (Wallis Collection)
Stefano Bardini Collection
Subject depicted
Shield
Bibliographic references
  • Argnani, Le ceramiche e Maioliche Faentine
  • Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1940
Other number
5 - Rackham (1940)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.6-1922

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Record createdAugust 3, 2007
Record URL
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