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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

1525 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Andreoli, Giorgio (maker)
Place of origin
Gubbio (made)

Small dish depicting three tritons, one of them with a Sea-nymph on his back. Painted in blue, green, yellow and orange and with gold and red lustre. Relief lines around the rim on the front, and turning-marks on the back. Date and mark on the back in gold lustre "1525 .M0.Go.$.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Lustre
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Small dish depicting three tritons, one with a Sea-nymph on his back, Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, dated 1525, tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Physical description
Small dish depicting three tritons, one of them with a Sea-nymph on his back. Painted in blue, green, yellow and orange and with gold and red lustre. Relief lines around the rim on the front, and turning-marks on the back. Date and mark on the back in gold lustre "1525 .M0.Go.$.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 19.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • '.Mo.Go.' (Maker's mark for Maestro Giorgio painted in lustre on the back)
  • '1525' (Date painted on the back)
Gallery label
Dish Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, Italy dated 1525 Mark: '.Mo.Go.', painted in lustre Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration 1755-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase, formerly Bernal Collection.
Production
J.V.G. Mallet, February 1999: Made and lustred in Gubbio. A similar plate, from the so called "S-service" is in the British Museum (inv. 1851, 12-1,11), it is also dated 1525. See Lit. Mat. ref.
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Lit Mat S-service
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. Ceramiche Umbre. Faenza. 1989, vol.II. 423 p., ill. 130.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
678 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1755-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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