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

Dish

Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Faenza (made)

Dish on low foot, depicting The Virgin and Child enthroned with St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John the infant.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Painted
Glazed
Brief description
Dish on low foot depicting The Virgin and Child enthroned with St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John the infant, made in Faenza, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish on low foot, depicting The Virgin and Child enthroned with St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John the infant.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23cm
Gallery label
Dish depicting The Virgin and Child enthroned with St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John the infant Made in Faenza, Italy Tin-glazed earthenware 649-1884 Castellani Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Formerly Castellani Collection.
Production
The subject is copied from an altarpiece in Faenza Cathedral painted in 1526 by Innocenza Da lmola. Horizontal drawing for the altarpiece is in the British Museum, published by Philip Pouncy in the Burlington Magazine, LXXXVII (July, 1945), p172.

Rackham, 1940
Attributes the piece to Baldassarre Manara.

Ravanelli Guidotti, 1996
Uncertain attribution to Menara

J Mallet, 25/04/2003
Similar to Forli piece. Possibly after Raffaello. Heavy contour drawing. In Baldassarre Manara book (p.220-1, pl.1a &1b). Strong iconographic aspect reminiscent of Faenza. Linked to the pala Bonaccorsi in Faenza cathedral by Innocenzo Da lmola.
Subjects depicted
Virgin and Child
St. Peter
St. Paul
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Ravanelli Guidotti, C. Baldassarre Manara Faentino: pittore di maioliche del Cinquecento. Ferrara : Belriguardo, 1996. pp.200-221, pl.1a &1b.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
814 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
649-1884

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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