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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

1530-1540 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Moulded dish on low foot, with painted image of St. Sebastian. The rim shows embossed pine-cones separated by leaf-scrolls and berries. On the back, five rough scrolls in gold lustre. Painted in blue and green and with red and gold lustre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Moulded dish on low foot, with painted image of St. Sebastian, made in Gubbio, Italy, 1530-40, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Moulded dish on low foot, with painted image of St. Sebastian. The rim shows embossed pine-cones separated by leaf-scrolls and berries. On the back, five rough scrolls in gold lustre. Painted in blue and green and with red and gold lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 26cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Gubbio, Italy 1530-40 Tin-glazed earthenware 8888-1863 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection.
Production
John Mallet, 4-2-1999
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Bojani G.C., et al. Mastro Giorgio da Gubbio: una carriera sfolgorante. Gubbio, 1998. Cat. 32
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
709 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
8888-1863

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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