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

Plate

1515-1520 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Nearly flat plate with low footrim, painted decoration showing a coat-of-arms and grotesque ornament including a putto and seraph and trophies. Two tablets, incorporated in the trophies, show some sort of mock inscriptions. On the back, two groups of concentric circles in red lustre. Painted in blue and green, (purple and yellow?) and with red and gold lustre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Brief description
Nearly flat plate with low footrim, coat-of-arms and grotesque ornament including a putto and seraph, made in Gubbio, 1515-20, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Nearly flat plate with low footrim, painted decoration showing a coat-of-arms and grotesque ornament including a putto and seraph and trophies. Two tablets, incorporated in the trophies, show some sort of mock inscriptions. On the back, two groups of concentric circles in red lustre. Painted in blue and green, (purple and yellow?) and with red and gold lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24cm
Gallery label
Plate Made in Gubbio, Italy 1515-20 Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration 1730-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection.
Production
John Mallet, 2-12-1998
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
649 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
1730-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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