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

Plate

ca. 1540 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with a central coat-of-arms. On the border oak branches in complex knots on a blue ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate, tin-glazed earthenware painted with coat-of-arms, Urbino or Castel Durante, Italy, ca. 1540
Physical description
Plate, tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with a central coat-of-arms. On the border oak branches in complex knots on a blue ground.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.5cm
Gallery label
Plate depicting a coat-of-arms Made in Urbino or Castel Durante about 1540 Tin-glazed earthenware 1766-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Formerly Bernal Collection.
Bought for £ 5
Production
Broken and restored. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, copper green. On the rim, interlaced oak-branches.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
605 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
1766-1855

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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