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

Plate

Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Italian maiolica plate depicting the Three Graces, the arms are of Ciaja Barni of Siena. Yellow rim. The back plain.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate depicting the Three Graces, attributed to 'the painter of the coalmine service', Urbino, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Italian maiolica plate depicting the Three Graces, the arms are of Ciaja Barni of Siena. Yellow rim. The back plain.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 28.5cm
Gallery label
Plate depicting the Three Graces Attributed to 'the painter of the coalmine service', Urbino, Italy Tin-glazed earthenware 1752-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection the arms are of Ciaja Barni of Siena(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase, formerly Bernal Collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for £15 10s.
Production
JVG Mallet, 17/11/2004
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Mallet, John. One artist or two? The painter of the so called 'Della Rovere' dishes and the painter of the Coalmine service. Faenza 2003, LXXXIX. pp.51-74.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
870 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
1752-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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