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

Plate

ca. 1550 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Castel Durante (made)

Plate with Alexander and Diogenes with coat of arms with inscription 'SAPIES DOMINABITVR ASTRIS', made in Castel Durante, Italy, about 1550, tin-glazed earthenware


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Plate with Alexander and Diogenes with coat of arms with inscription 'SAPIES DOMINABITVR ASTRIS', made in Castel Durante, Italy, about 1550, tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'SAPIES DOMINABITVR ASTRIS' (Latin. Painted on the front on a ribbon.)
    Translation
    Knowledge dominates fate
  • 'Alesandro magnio quand moua innanze...allo Diogine' (Painted on the back)
    Translation
    Alexander the Great when he went before Diogenes
Gallery label
Plate Made in Urbino, Italy about 1550 SAPIES DOMINABITVR ASTRIS. Tin-glazed earthenware 8916-1863 Soulages Collection(16/07/2008)
Object history
Purchase: Soulages Collection.
Production
Probably painted in the workshop of Ludovico and Angelo Picchi
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
1004 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
8916-1863

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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