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

Dish

1732-36 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish depicting a coast-scene, with fortresses on islands, ships and a distant town.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish with coastal scene with fortresses on islands, ships and a distant town, painted in blue and purple, made in Lodi, Italy, 1732-36, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish depicting a coast-scene, with fortresses on islands, ships and a distant town.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.5cm
  • Diameter: 32cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Pavia?, Italy about 1720-30 Tin-glazed earthenware C.116-1937(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bought out of the Lane Memorial Fund
Object history
Ferrari Collection.
Bibliographic references
  • Pelizzoni, E. and M. Forni. La maiolica di Pavia tra Seicento e Settecento. Milano, 1997. 160 p., pl.140.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Recenti acquisti di maiolica italiana al Victoria & Albert Museum di Londra. Faenza. 1938, XXVI. N.4-5, pl.XIXa.
  • F. Ferrari, La Ceramica di Lodi, Lodi, 2003, p. 204, cat. 141, illustrates our dish.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1228 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.116-1937

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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