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

Plate

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

Plate, painted in blue, orange, copper green, yellow and manganese purple. In the middle, in a medallion with a panelled border, is a symmetrical composition with a grotesque mask, a shell, paired monsters, trumpets and scrolls. The rim has an inner border of scale-pattern enclosed by an outer with cranesbill motives on a wavy stem against a ground of tiny spirals. On the back, concentric rings, wide and narrow, in blue and purple.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate depicting grotesque mask, shell, paired monsters, trumpets and scrolls, made in Faenza, Italy, about 1500, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate, painted in blue, orange, copper green, yellow and manganese purple. In the middle, in a medallion with a panelled border, is a symmetrical composition with a grotesque mask, a shell, paired monsters, trumpets and scrolls. The rim has an inner border of scale-pattern enclosed by an outer with cranesbill motives on a wavy stem against a ground of tiny spirals. On the back, concentric rings, wide and narrow, in blue and purple.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 28cm
Gallery label
Plate Made in Faenza, Italy about 1500 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2067-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
J Mallet
Typical flat Montelupo back
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
218 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2067-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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