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

Plaque

1736 (made)
Artist/Maker
Terchi, Bartolomeo (painter (artist))
Place of origin
Bassano Romano (made)

Plaque depicting a nymph embraced by a triton (after Agostino Carracci).


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Earthenware
Myths & Legends
Object type
Plaque
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Tin Glazing
Brief description
Plaque depicting a nymph embraced by a triton, painted by Bartolomeo Terchi after Agostino Carracci, Bassano Romano (Italy), probably 1736, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plaque depicting a nymph embraced by a triton (after Agostino Carracci).
Dimensions
  • Width: 27cm
  • Height: 23.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Bar: Terchi: Romo' *6 (Bottom right on the front )
Translation
Bartolomeo Terchi Romano
Transliteration
Bartolomeo Terchi, from Rome probably '36', short for 1736
Gallery label
Plaque depicting The Triumph of Galatea Painted by Bartolomeo Terchi, Siena about 1730 Inscription (at the base) 'Bar: Terchi' Tin-glazed earthenware 6657-1860 Montferrand Collection After a painting by Annibale Carracci in Palazzo Farnese, Rome.(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Montferrand collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for 17s 6d.
Production
After a painting by Annibale Carracci in Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Acquired as 'a Triton and a Nymph, with cupids' but also referred to as Galatea and a triton, Thetis and Peleus and Glaucus and Scylla.

Polidori (see Bibl. ref.) dates it to 1745. Pelizzoni to 1730.

See Object Information File in dept. to compare to earlier dish with same subject, by Carlo Antonio Grue, Castelli, circa 1690 (now in the collection of a London dealer).
Subjects depicted
Tritons
Nymphs
Bibliographic references
  • Pelizzoni, E. and G. Zanchi. La maiolica dei Terchi. Firenze, 1982. 55 p.
  • Polidori, G.C. Forme e Spiriti dei Carracci nella Maiolica di Castelli d'Abruzzio Ceramica. Oct. 1957, XII.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1183 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
6657-1860

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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