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Dish

1450-1470 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Montelupo (made)

Dish with a lion holding a cross-inscribed flag in its right paw. Lion coloured in green and yellow, 'green' style.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Earthenware
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with an image of a lion and flag. Italian (Montelupo), 1450-70
Physical description
Dish with a lion holding a cross-inscribed flag in its right paw. Lion coloured in green and yellow, 'green' style.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 51cm
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Dish depicting Lion with crossed flag
Made in Montelupo 1450-70
Tin-glazed earthenware

1759-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection
(2008)
DISH with a lion holding a cross-inscribed flag
1450-70

This dish is typical of the 'green' style created in the Florentine countryside in the early decades of the 15th century. The lion probably represents the Lion of Florence (the marzocco), one of the city's symbols, as he holds the cross-inscribed flag of the first Republic in his right paw.

Italy, Montelupo

Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Museum no. 1759-1855
(2010 (ES))
Basin, Montelupo, about 1470
Credit line
Bought
Object history
Formerly Bernal Collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for £6 5s.
Production
Described as coming from Florentine area

Berti, 1997
Subjects depicted
Lions (Animals)
Flags
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Cora, G. Storia della maiolica di Firenze e del contado: Secoli xiv e xv. Firenze, 1973.
  • Berti, Fausti. Storia della ceramica di Montelupo. Vol.I. Montelupo, 1997.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
75 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1759-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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