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

Dish

ca. 1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish for a ewer.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish for a ewer, depicting trophy of shields in the central boss, made in Deruta, Italy, about 1530, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish for a ewer.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 34cm
Marks and inscriptions
'B' (Maker's mark painted in Roman script on the back of the dish.)
Gallery label
Dish depicting trophy of shields in the central boss Made in Deruta, Italy About 1530 Marked B on the reverse Tin-glazed earthenware 2605-1856 Delange Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchased, Delange, Paris.

Purchase price note: Bought for £2 16s.
Production
J Mallet, 11/02/97
Marked B in blue on the reverse. Unusual leafy rim.
C.f dish with similar decoration in Fiocco & Gherardi, 1994, p.201, fig.83
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. La ceramica di Deruta dal XIII al XVIII secolo. Perugia : Volumnia, 1994. 201 p., fig.83.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
754 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
2605-1856

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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