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

Cruet

ca. 1585 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Of ovoid shape with handle and spout everted rim and foot; tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, black, orange, yellow and green. Handle in form of a snake. On the front, the device of a flaming pyre with a scroll inscribed ARDET AETERNUM all the surface covered by grotesques on a white background.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Oil cruet, handle in form of two snakes, double spout surrounded by leaf ornament, Patenazzi workshop, Urbino, about 1585, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Of ovoid shape with handle and spout everted rim and foot; tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, black, orange, yellow and green. Handle in form of a snake. On the front, the device of a flaming pyre with a scroll inscribed ARDET AETERNUM all the surface covered by grotesques on a white background.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
'OLIO' (Italian. Painted below the handle)
Translation
Oil
Gallery label
Cruet Made in Patanazzi workshop, Urbino, Italy About 1585 OLIO Tin-glazed earthenware 504-1865 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection; then transferred to the Bethnal Green Museum
Production
See Rackham's catalogue for record 882. Thought to be companion piece of this (505-1865).
Bibliographic reference
Elisa Sani, Not in Rackham - 'Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert Museum – Part 1', in: Keramos 210 (2010), pp. 1-30, cat. 46
Collection
Accession number
504-1865

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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