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

Basin

1600-1625 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Baisn with curved rim, painted in blue, yellow, deep orange, and manganese brown. Inside, in the middle, Cupid in a car drawn by two doves, in brown and orange on yellow ground. The remaining surface divided by bands of patterned strapwork into oval compartiments containing grotesques of birds flanking a stem in colours, with scrolls or foliated bands in the intervals. On the outside, horizantal bands in blue and orange. Two drilled suspension holes in the foot.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Basin with recurved rim, probably made in The Marches, Italy, 1600-25, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Baisn with curved rim, painted in blue, yellow, deep orange, and manganese brown. Inside, in the middle, Cupid in a car drawn by two doves, in brown and orange on yellow ground. The remaining surface divided by bands of patterned strapwork into oval compartiments containing grotesques of birds flanking a stem in colours, with scrolls or foliated bands in the intervals. On the outside, horizantal bands in blue and orange. Two drilled suspension holes in the foot.
Dimensions
  • Height: 14cm
  • Diameter: 38.5cm
Gallery label
Basin Made in Probably the Marches, Italy 1600-25 Tin-glazed earthenware 2974-1853 Formerly Bandinel Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Formerly Bandinel Collection.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1081 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
2974-1853

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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