Dish
1533-1538 (made)
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Large dish depicting the finding of Moses.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Large dish depicting the finding of Moses, Workshop of Nicola da Urbino, Urbino, Italy, about 1535, tin-glazed earthenware |
| Physical description | Large dish depicting the finding of Moses. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Chome laregina Moglie dil Re farauone andando a spasso con le sue serue e donzele videro uenire per la fiumana una chaseta inpiciata laquale si era dentro moises.' (Painted on the back.)
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| Object history | Webb (from Delange Collection, Paris). Purchase price note: Bought for £10 10s. |
| Production | J Mallet, 13/05/2003 Late Nicola da Urbino (died before 1538), lacking sparkling of early work. Based on Raphael's Finding of Moses, in Vatican Rooms. View into Urbino courtyard, columns inspired by Solomon's columns in St Peter. Arms of St Severino impaling Orsini. Same date as plate with arms of Gonzaga. Condition: broken and repaired in the middle. Flaking on the rim See Rackham, Bernard: Italian Maiolica. Pl. 71A. (London: Faber & Faber, 1952) See Cora under N.551, p. 140 John Gere (B 17) comments that the composition corresponds with drawing in the National Museum, Stockholm (J. Schoenbrunner & J. Moder, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, IX, N. 984) which is by the copyist known as the " Calligraphic Fazer" who specialiesed in making copies after T. Viti & raphael. (7/62). In recent catalogue of drawings in Stockholm Museum by Bjurstrom. Anguillara not Anguillaria (Rackham 1960 notes) |
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| Other number | 574 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | 2825-1856 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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