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

Plate

1531 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painted in blue, olive green and white highlights, and with red and gold lustre. The background is filled in with blue. Signature and date painted in red lustre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Brief description
Plate depicting a male bust in the centre, in grisaille, Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, dated 1531, tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration
Physical description
Painted in blue, olive green and white highlights, and with red and gold lustre. The background is filled in with blue. Signature and date painted in red lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 23.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • ',,Mo.Go.' (Maker's mark for Maestro Giorgio painted in lustre on the back)
  • '1531' (Date painted on the back)
Gallery label
Plate Workshop of Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio, Italy dated 1531 Mark: '..Mo.Go.', painted in lustre Tin-glazed earthenware with lustre decoration 8908-1863 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection.
Production
J.V.G. Mallet, February 1999
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Fuchs, C. D. Maioliche istoriate rinascimentali del Museo statale d'arte medioevale e moderna di Arezzo. Arezzo, 1993.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
665 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
8908-1863

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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