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

Bowl

1510-1520 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Shallow bowl on low foot, painted in blue, brownish orange, yellow and manganese purple, depicting, in the middle, a badge, probably of a monastery. The badge is composed of a cross on a triple mount on which are letters OS. This is surrounded by concentric bands, varying in width, of bead-and leaf-ornament, a stylised laurel wreath, and an outer border divided into compartments in each of which is a crossed lozenge. The back unpainted, with a ring of honeycomb pattern cut in very slight relief on the wheel.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Shallow bowl or plate, made in Faenza, 1510-1520, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Shallow bowl on low foot, painted in blue, brownish orange, yellow and manganese purple, depicting, in the middle, a badge, probably of a monastery. The badge is composed of a cross on a triple mount on which are letters OS. This is surrounded by concentric bands, varying in width, of bead-and leaf-ornament, a stylised laurel wreath, and an outer border divided into compartments in each of which is a crossed lozenge. The back unpainted, with a ring of honeycomb pattern cut in very slight relief on the wheel.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4.5cm
  • Diameter: 20cm
Marks and inscriptions
A ring of honeycomb pattern (Cut in very slight relief on wheel, on unpainted back)
Gallery label
Plate Made in Faenza, Italy 1510-1520 Back unpainted, with a ring of honeycomb pattern cut in very slight relief on wheel. Tin-glazed earthenware C.2060-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Molinier Colection. Two bowls from the same set, with the same badge but different borders, repr. Falke, Mslg Pringsheim, figs. 171,172. Another is in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
238 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2060-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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