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

Footed Dish

1520 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish on low foot, depicting six soldiers in Roman armour carrying banners. Painted in blue, green and yellow and with red and gold lustre. The back painted in red lustre, 2 sets of concentric rings with oblique gadroons in between, in the middle the maker's mark and date "MoGo. 1520".


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Brief description
Dish on low foot depicting six Roman soldiers, Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, dated 1520, tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Physical description
Dish on low foot, depicting six soldiers in Roman armour carrying banners. Painted in blue, green and yellow and with red and gold lustre. The back painted in red lustre, 2 sets of concentric rings with oblique gadroons in between, in the middle the maker's mark and date "MoGo. 1520".
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 31.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'MoGo' (Maker's mark painted in lustre on the back)
  • '1520 ' (Date, painted)
Gallery label
Dish on low foot Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, Italy dated 1520 Mark: 'MoG.', painted in lustre Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration 7693-1861 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection.
Production
J.V.G. Mallet, February 1999
Bibliographic references
  • Massing, J.M. The Triuph of Jacobus Argentorantensis, its Iconography and Influence. Print Quarterly. March 1990.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
667 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
7693-1861

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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