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

Plate

1533 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Urbini, Francesco (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Gubbio (made)

Plate depicting Erysichton felling an oak in the sacred grove of Ceres (Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII)


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Glazed
Brief description
Plate, Erysichton felling oak in sacred grove of Ceres (Metamorphoses VIII), painted by Francesco Urbini, lustred in Gubbio, dated 1533, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate depicting Erysichton felling an oak in the sacred grove of Ceres (Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII)
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.5cm
Gallery label
Plate depicting Erysichton felling an oak in the sacred grove of Ceres (Ovid, Metamorphoses, VIII) , Painted by Francesco Urbini lustred in Gubbio dated 1533 Tin-glazed earthenware 1706-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for £7 10s.
Production
J mallet 16/04/99
painted by Francesco Urbini, lustred in gubbio. Dated in lustre on the foot 1533.

This subject also occurs on a dish in the Ashmolean Museum, attributed to Pesaro. Fortnum Cat. Ashmolean Museum c.420, p.64. See Guy de Terrarent, 'Kunstmuseets Arskrift, 1950, p.18. (Rackham Notes 1960).
Subjects depicted
Oak Tree
Erysichton
Literary referenceOvid. <u>Metamorphoses</u>, VIII
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
739 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1706-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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