Dish
ca. 1560-1580 (made)
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Cipriano Piccolpasso, writing on the potter’s art around 1557, observed that ‘grotesques have almost fallen out of use, and I don’t know why; it is a delicate style of painting’. This magnifi cent example belies his report. The central scene wittily alludes to the dish’s function. It shows the biblical episode when the Children of Israel miraculously receive food from Heaven.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Oval dish, moulded in relief with baroque panelling separated by grotesque lion's masks and draped human heads, Fontana workshop, Urbino, about 1560-70, tin-glazed earthenware |
| Physical description | Dish, oval, moulded in relief with baroque panelling separated alternately by grotesque lion's masks and draped human heads. |
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| Gallery label | Dish
Probably made in Orazio Fontana workshop, Urbino, Italy About 1560-70
Tin-glazed earthenware
78-1885 Fountaine Collection(16/07/2008) |
| Object history | Purchase: Fountaine Collection (Sale cat.nr. 211). See bibl.ref. Purchase price note: £5427 (1,383l) total purchase price for 75 to 80-1885. |
| Historical context | See Conti Faenza 1969-pp. 61-62. Cosimo III very likely to have given some maiolica from his collection to Fountaine. |
| Summary | Cipriano Piccolpasso, writing on the potter’s art around 1557, observed that ‘grotesques have almost fallen out of use, and I don’t know why; it is a delicate style of painting’. This magnifi cent example belies his report. The central scene wittily alludes to the dish’s function. It shows the biblical episode when the Children of Israel miraculously receive food from Heaven. |
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| Other number | 846 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | 78-1885 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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