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

Plate

1540-1550 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Urbino (made)
Pesaro (made)

Plate with the arms of Hörwarth and Schellenberger, workshop of Guido di Merlino, Urbino, Italy, 1540-45, tin-glazed earthenware


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Plate with the arms of Hörwarth and Schellenberger, workshop of Guido di Merlino, Urbino, Italy, 1540-45, tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 26.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'li di marini' (Maker's mark painted on the back)
Translation
The sea gods
Gallery label
Plate Made in Urbino, Italy, or Pesaro 1540-50 inscription: 'li di marini' [the sea gods] Tin-glazed earthenware 1704-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for £11 6d.
Production
JVG Mallet 25/10/05
Another plate (or dish on low foot?) in Stuttgart, Württenbergisches Landesmuseum, Krongut 180. (Information from Dr. Johanna Lessmann).
Others in Herzog Anton Ulrichmuseum, Brunswick, see Johanna Lessmann, Catalogue, 1979, Nos. 154-7. Johannes Hörwartt marriage with Helen Schallenbergen in 1528. She attributes to Guido da Merlino workshop on grounds of comparison with a piece in the Goethe Museum.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Szczepanek, G. Italienische Majoliken mit Wappen Augsburger Familien (1515-1606). Keramos. 2004, no.186. 98 p., fig. 14.
  • Lessman, J. Herzog Anton Ulrichmuseum Braunschweig: Italienische Majoliken: Katalog der Sammlung. Brunswick, 1979. Catalogue entry 154-157, pp.178-180
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
923 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1704-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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