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

Basin

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

Dish for a ewer, painted in blue, deep orange, yellow, copper green and opaque white. On the boss, a ribboned and coronetted shield with the arms of Colonna, of Central and South Italy (Or a column argent). The boss is surrounded by a wreath with scale-pattern in white beyond it enclosed by a border of leaf-pattern. On the rim, a row of conventional bud-motives. On the back, in blue, petal motives transversely striped radiating about an eight-pointed compartment in which is enclosed M crossed by a paraph between two stars.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish for a ewer, depicting a ribboned and coronetted shield with the arms of Colonna, made in Deruta, about 1500, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish for a ewer, painted in blue, deep orange, yellow, copper green and opaque white. On the boss, a ribboned and coronetted shield with the arms of Colonna, of Central and South Italy (Or a column argent). The boss is surrounded by a wreath with scale-pattern in white beyond it enclosed by a border of leaf-pattern. On the rim, a row of conventional bud-motives. On the back, in blue, petal motives transversely striped radiating about an eight-pointed compartment in which is enclosed M crossed by a paraph between two stars.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 36cm
Marks and inscriptions
M' crossed by paraph (Maker's mark painted on the back.)
Gallery label
Basin Made in Deruta about 1500 Mark: M crossed by paraph Tin-glazed earthenware C.2073-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Duc de Dino Collection.
Production
J Mallet, 19.02.02

With Colonna arms.
Piece with simiar mark (M crossed by paraph) in Fiocco and Gherardi, 1994, no.48, p.178.
Refer to Rackham 1915, p.33 and another no.170, p.273 (mid-16th century)
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. La ceramica di Deruta dal XIII al XVIII secolo. Perugia : Volumnia, 1994. No.48, 178 p.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
396 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2073-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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