Dish
1525 (dated)
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Dish depicting, in the centre, a Cupid, holding a fox by the tail. On the rim, four medallions filled with symmetrical arabesques in blue on a green ground (the green is painted over the blue). On the back, in gold lustre, two sets of concentric circles and 1525 and .Mo.Go. Three spur marks on the well. Painted in blue, green and with gold lustre. The blue of the background is painted 'free' by hand and incised.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration |
| Brief description | Dish depicting Cupid, holding a fox by the tail, Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio,dated 1525, tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration |
| Physical description | Dish depicting, in the centre, a Cupid, holding a fox by the tail. On the rim, four medallions filled with symmetrical arabesques in blue on a green ground (the green is painted over the blue). On the back, in gold lustre, two sets of concentric circles and 1525 and .Mo.Go. Three spur marks on the well. Painted in blue, green and with gold lustre. The blue of the background is painted 'free' by hand and incised. |
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| Gallery label | Dish
Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, Italy dated 1525
Mark: '.Mo.Go.', painted in lustre
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
1601-1855(16/07/2008) |
| Production | This is the earliest known, dated, example or 'prototype' of type of dish with either putto or coat-of-arms in centre and rim decoration scratched through the blue glaze. The dated examples illutrated in Ballardini's Corpus Vol I & II, fall within the date-span 1526-1535. Most of them are dated between 1526-28 (17 total), while a few are later: 1531 (no. 33), 1532 (no. 73), 1533 (no. 74), 1535 (no. 212). On this early example the blue background is painted 'free' by hand, while on the later examples a banding wheel is used. |
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| Other number | 685 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | 1601-1855 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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