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Plate

1538 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Deruta (made)

Plate depicting the story of Diana and Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses, made in Deruta, dated 1538, tin-glazed earthenware


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Plate depicting the story of Diana and Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses, made in Deruta, dated 1538, tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25cm
  • Height: 3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Il miser ateon connuerso i ceruo.' (Italian. Painted in Italic script on the back of the plate.)
    Translation
    The unfortunate A[c]teon changed into a stag.
  • '1538' (Italian. Date painted in Roman script on the back of the plate.)
Gallery label
Plate depicting the story of Diana and Actaeon from Ovid's Metamorphoses Made in Deruta, Italy dated 1538 Inscription on the reverse: "Il miser ateon conuerso i ceruo 1538" (The poor Actaeon transformed into a deer) Tin-glazed earthenware 178-1853 Formerly Bandinel Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Formerly Bandinel Collection.
Production
Rackam, 1940
Imitator of Francesco Urbini, perhaps same workshop

J Mallet
There exists a later, equally clumsy adaptation of the same composition on a Deruta plate of the 17th century. See Fiocco and Gherardi, 1988, p.169 no.317 and two other plates with same theme attributed to Mastro degli Atteoni in Fiocco and Gherardi, 1994, nos. 231&232.
Subjects depicted
Diana
Actaeon
Literary referenceOvid. <u>Metamorphoses</u>
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. Ceramiche Umbre. Faenza. 1988, vol.I. 169 p., no.317.
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. La ceramica di Deruta dal XIII al XVIII secolo. Perugia : Volumnia, 1994. Nos.231, 232.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
780 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
178-1853

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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