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

Dish

ca. 1490-1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, orange, yellow, copper green. In the middle, the Fountain of Diana, in a rocky landscape are seen nymphs undressing and bathing in the basin (inscribed FOE D' DIANA) of a fountain with, at its apex, a figure of a boy holding an upturned flask and spouting water. On either side of a vase-like portion of the shaft are perched two cupids holding cornucopias from which bundles of quivers and arrows respectively are suspended. In the foreground deer are drinking from the fountain. On the rim, leaf ornament in reserve on an orange ground. Greenish lead glaze on the back except within the foot-rim, where it is bare.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware depicting the Fountain of Diana, probably made in Deruta or Siena, Italy, ca. 1490-1500.
Physical description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, orange, yellow, copper green. In the middle, the Fountain of Diana, in a rocky landscape are seen nymphs undressing and bathing in the basin (inscribed FOE D' DIANA) of a fountain with, at its apex, a figure of a boy holding an upturned flask and spouting water. On either side of a vase-like portion of the shaft are perched two cupids holding cornucopias from which bundles of quivers and arrows respectively are suspended. In the foreground deer are drinking from the fountain. On the rim, leaf ornament in reserve on an orange ground. Greenish lead glaze on the back except within the foot-rim, where it is bare.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 49cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in probably Deruta, ItalySiena about 1490-1500 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2057-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Boy Collection. Boy Sale Catalogue, Paris 15 May 1905, lot 89, pl. facing p. 16.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
412 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2057-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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