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

Bowl

1694 (made)
Artist/Maker
Antonio Maria Cuzio (designer and maker)
Place of origin
Pavia (made)

Red earthenware bowl covered with a white slip and with incised decoration of a portrait of an ecclesiastic and inscriptions; border of foliage and flowers around rim. The whole covered with a transparent dark amber-brown glaze.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Object type
Bowl
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Tin Glazing
Incising
Brief description
Red earthenware bowl, portrait of an ecclesiastic and border of foliage incised in white slip, dark amber-brown glaze. Made by Antonio Maria Cuzio. Italian, Pavia, dated 1694.
Physical description
Red earthenware bowl covered with a white slip and with incised decoration of a portrait of an ecclesiastic and inscriptions; border of foliage and flowers around rim. The whole covered with a transparent dark amber-brown glaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.5cm
  • Diameter: 34cm
Style
Renaissance
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'LIBERA ME DOMINE AB HOMINE MALO, ET A LINGUA INIVSTA.' (Latin. Painted on band of medallion)
    Translation
    Deliver me Oh Lord from the evil of man and from an unjust tongue
  • 'TIMETE DOMINVM' (Latin. Painted on ribbon by medallion)
    Translation
    Fear the Lord
  • 'PAPIAE DIE XVII MAIJ 1694' (Latin. Signature painted in the background)
  • 'SOLAMENTE E INGANNATO CHI TROPPO SI FIDA' (Latin. Painted on bowl face)
    Translation
    Only the over trustful is deceived
Gallery label
  • Bowl Made in Italy LIBERA ME DOMINE AB HOMINE MALO, ET A LINGUA INIVSTA. Tin-glazed earthenware 4611-1858(16/07/2008)
  • Dish with portrait of a cleric and inscriptions Red earthenware covered with a white slip and with incised decoration. The whole covered with a transparent dark amber- brown glaze. Italian, Pavia, dated 1694.(2010 (TAB))
Object history
Rackham attributes this dish to wares made at Pavia by Antonio Maria Cuzio.
Historical context
On the reverse of the dish there is an inscription stating that Presbyter Antonio Maria Cuzio, protonotary to the Pope, made this dish in 1694. There are other pieces assigned to the work of this man with the earliest dating to 1676.
Subjects depicted
Portraits
Inscriptions
Foliage
Association
Cuzio, Antonio Maria
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1977
  • Brambilla, C., Antonio Maria Cuzio e la ceramica di Pavia, Pavia, 1889
  • Casati, Paola, Le maioliche di Pavia nelle collezioni pubbliche e private dal XVII al XIX secolo, Pavia, 1992
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1431 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
4611-1858

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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