Dish
ca. 1490 (made)
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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Bibliographic reference | Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977 |
Other number | 129 - Rackham (1977) |
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Accession number | C.2066-1910 |
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Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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