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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Urbino (made)

Dish with wide well and flat rim. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with a subject of a sacrific. A composition of ten figures, with cattle and camels in a landscape, a burning altar in the middle, in the forground a bearded man is sacrificing a lamb. The reverse has concentric yellow lines and is inscribed: "ILSAGREFITIO" on the foot. The reverse is painted with circular yellow rings. The painting is very similar to 8914-1863

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Categories	Ceramics Maiolica
Object type	Plate
Materials and techniques	Tin-glazed earthenware, painted Earthenware Tin Glaze Glazed Painted
Brief description	Plate, tin-glazed earthenware, depicting a sacrifice, made in Urbino, about 1560
Physical description	Dish with wide well and flat rim. Tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours with a subject of a sacrific. A composition of ten figures, with cattle and camels in a landscape, a burning altar in the middle, in the forground a bearded man is sacrificing a lamb. The reverse has concentric yellow lines and is inscribed: "ILSAGREFITIO" on the foot. The reverse is painted with circular yellow rings. The painting is very similar to 8914-1863
Dimensions	Diameter: 26.5cm
Marks and inscriptions	'Il sagrificio' (Painted in blue)
Gallery label	Plate depicting a sacrifice Made in Urbino, Italy about 1560 Inscription: 'Il sagrificio', painted in blue Tin-glazed earthenware 8913-1863 Formerly Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history	Purchase. Formerly Soulages Collection.
Production	Same painter as 8914-1863
Subject depicted	Sacrifice
Bibliographic references	Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977. Elisa Sani, Not in Rackham - 'Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert Museum – Part 1', in: Keramos 210 (2010), pp. 1-30, cat. 34
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	8913-1863

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Record created	July 16, 2008
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O161137/plate-unknown/

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