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

Dish

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

Dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, brownish orange, copper green and dark manganese purple. In the middle, in a medallion surrounded by moulded flutes painted to simulate long gourd-like fruits, with fine scrollwork in the intervals, the Flagellation, Christ bound to a column, with two executioners, in a landscape with distant mountains. On the rim, interlaced strapwork. On the back, radial stems with buds and groups of cross-strokes in the middle, narrow panels in the hollows of the fluting, and a radial foliated border round the rim.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted, possibly made in Siena, Italy, ca. 1490
Physical description
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, brownish orange, copper green and dark manganese purple. In the middle, in a medallion surrounded by moulded flutes painted to simulate long gourd-like fruits, with fine scrollwork in the intervals, the Flagellation, Christ bound to a column, with two executioners, in a landscape with distant mountains. On the rim, interlaced strapwork. On the back, radial stems with buds and groups of cross-strokes in the middle, narrow panels in the hollows of the fluting, and a radial foliated border round the rim.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 39cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Possibly Siena , Italy about 1490 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2066-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
129 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2066-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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