Dish
about 1520 to 1540 (made)
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This dish may have been intended for display on a credenza (sideboard) or to hold items on the dining table. It's finely executed incised decoration would suggest a high original purchase price. The fantastical bird in the centre may be the device of a noble family.
A variety of incising tools were used to create the decoration through the slip. Fine and blunt styluses were used to create the cabling on the border. Curved and straight carving tools were used to create the scrolling foliage patterns.
Archaeologists have uncovered fragments with very similar decoration in the Tuscany region and the excavated evidence suggests that this style was popular from the end of the 15th century and well into the middle of the 16th century. Several dishes formerly in private collections in Italy and in Paris and others in the Museo Nazionale in Florence and the Musée National de Ceramique at Sevres, have the same scrolling foliage pattern on the wide border rim as in this dish. It is likely that these dishes were all made in a Tuscan workshop.
A variety of incising tools were used to create the decoration through the slip. Fine and blunt styluses were used to create the cabling on the border. Curved and straight carving tools were used to create the scrolling foliage patterns.
Archaeologists have uncovered fragments with very similar decoration in the Tuscany region and the excavated evidence suggests that this style was popular from the end of the 15th century and well into the middle of the 16th century. Several dishes formerly in private collections in Italy and in Paris and others in the Museo Nazionale in Florence and the Musée National de Ceramique at Sevres, have the same scrolling foliage pattern on the wide border rim as in this dish. It is likely that these dishes were all made in a Tuscan workshop.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Incised slipware |
| Brief description | Dish of red earthenware covered with a white slip, with incised decoration of a fantastical bird within two interlocked squares. Italian (Tuscany), about 1520 to 1540. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Incised through a pale slip |
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| Object history | Purchase: Hailstone Collection. |
| Historical context | This dish may have been intended for display on a credenza (sideboard) or to hold items on the dining table. It's finely executed incised decoration would suggest a high original purchase price. The fantastical bird in the centre may be the device of a noble family. A variety of incising tools were used to create the decoration through the slip. Fine and blunt styluses were used to create the cabling on the border. Curved and straight carving tools were used to create the scrolling foliage patterns. Archaeologists have uncovered fragments with very similar decoration in the Tuscany region and the excavated evidence suggests that this style was popular from the end of the 15th century and well into the middle of the 16th century. Several dishes formerly in private collections in Italy and in Paris and others in the Museo Nazionale in Florence and the Musée National de Ceramique at Sevres, have the same scrolling foliage pattern on the wide border rim as in this dish. It is likely that these dishes were all made in a Tuscan workshop. |
| Summary | This dish may have been intended for display on a credenza (sideboard) or to hold items on the dining table. It's finely executed incised decoration would suggest a high original purchase price. The fantastical bird in the centre may be the device of a noble family. A variety of incising tools were used to create the decoration through the slip. Fine and blunt styluses were used to create the cabling on the border. Curved and straight carving tools were used to create the scrolling foliage patterns. Archaeologists have uncovered fragments with very similar decoration in the Tuscany region and the excavated evidence suggests that this style was popular from the end of the 15th century and well into the middle of the 16th century. Several dishes formerly in private collections in Italy and in Paris and others in the Museo Nazionale in Florence and the Musée National de Ceramique at Sevres, have the same scrolling foliage pattern on the wide border rim as in this dish. It is likely that these dishes were all made in a Tuscan workshop. |
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| Other number | 1358 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | 92-1891 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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