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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

ca. 1520 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate of tin-glazed earthenware with a deep centre and wide flat rim. Painted in colours with a shield of arms in the centre and scroll work in white on a pale reddish brown ground.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours
Brief description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware painted with colours, made in Faenza, ca. 1520
Physical description
Plate of tin-glazed earthenware with a deep centre and wide flat rim. Painted in colours with a shield of arms in the centre and scroll work in white on a pale reddish brown ground.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 18.5cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Italy Tin-glazed earthenware 799-1877 Shandon Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Shandon Collection.

Purchase price note: Bought for £10 10s.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
237 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
799-1877

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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