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

Plate

1480-1490 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, painted in dark blue, orange, copper green and manganese purple, with a symmetrical pattern of peacock feather ornament enclosing a sun-face and terminating at the circumference in "Gothic" foliage. The back plain, with thin enamel.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate with peacock feather ornament enclosing a sun-face, foliage around rim, tin-glazed earthenware, Deruta or Pesaro, 1475-1500
Physical description
Plate, painted in dark blue, orange, copper green and manganese purple, with a symmetrical pattern of peacock feather ornament enclosing a sun-face and terminating at the circumference in "Gothic" foliage. The back plain, with thin enamel.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.5cm
Gallery label
Plate Made in Possibly Deruta, Italy 1475-1500 Tin-glazed earthenware 2606-1856 Delange Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchased, Delange, Paris.
Production
J Mallet
Compare to roundel 4386-1857, Rackham cat.117
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
118 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
2606-1856

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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