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

Jug

1650-70 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jug with melon fluting on the body and handle of two strands with divergent serpentine ends, tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, silver mounts and cover, Albisola, Italy, 1650-70


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Jug with melon fluting on the body and handle of two strands with divergent serpentine ends, tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, silver mounts and cover, Albisola, Italy, 1650-70
Dimensions
  • Height: 12cm
  • Diameter: 14cm
Gallery label
Jug Made in Italy Tin-glazed earthenware 223-1887 Diamond Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchased from the Dr. H. W. Diamond Collection, 1887,
Purchase price note: Bought for £3 10s.
Production
Rackham, 1960 notes: "Deruta style, but has beacon mark, cf.Morazzoni, fig. 22."

III.J.V.G. Mallet, centro Ligure, Atti
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
  • Cecilia Chilosi (ed), Ceramiche della tradizione Ligure: thesaurus di opere dal Medio Evo al primo Novecento, Milan, 2011, p. 74, cat. 56, our jug illustrated and discussed, attributed to the Manufattura Grosso in Albisola.
Other number
1125 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
223-1887

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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