Dish
1535-1540 (made)
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Italian mailoica dish painted in blue, yellow, orange, copper, green, black and opaque white. Depicts an unidentified classical subject surrounded by characters, one of which is carrying a baby in swaddling cloths. Round the hollow, interlaced ornament. Around the rim, in reserve on a blue ground bearded monsters with grotesque masks are lashed together in pairs. Plain back
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Dish, unidentified classical subject of horsemen with baby, tin-glazed earthenware, possibly made in Rimini or Verona, Italy, 1535-1540. |
| Physical description | Italian mailoica dish painted in blue, yellow, orange, copper, green, black and opaque white. Depicts an unidentified classical subject surrounded by characters, one of which is carrying a baby in swaddling cloths. Round the hollow, interlaced ornament. Around the rim, in reserve on a blue ground bearded monsters with grotesque masks are lashed together in pairs. Plain back |
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| Gallery label | Dish
Made in Possibly Rimini or Verona, Italy 1535-40
Tin-glazed earthenware
1771-1855 Formerly Bernal Collection(16/07/2008) |
| Object history | Formerly Bernal Collection. Purchase price note: Bought for £11 6d. |
| Production | Surely by Giulio da Urbino? J.V.G.M. 03.11.03 J Mallet Painter who signed pieces with the same handrwriting "In Verona" "In Urbino", probably a pupil of Xanto. 'Bianco sopra bianco' decoration around the centre. Unusual shape and red clay, badly potted. Two patches and bad overpainting, minor flaking. See Mallet in Gianbattista Siviero, Francesco Xanto da Rovigo e Compagni, 1987, p.103, plate 76 to 78. Illustrated comparative pieces. |
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| Other number | 994 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | 1771-1855 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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