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Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Dish

ca. 1520 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish, with pronounced footring, painted in blue, yellow, orange, red, copper green with the subject of the Fall of Phaeton covering the whole surface. He is depicted in his two-horse chariot smitten by a flame piercing the clouds, in the upper half of the composition, below is a city on a river bank at the foot of a craggy hill. On the back, intersecting petal motifs transversely striped in blue and red radiating about a wheel motif with sprigs in the interspaces.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish depicting the Fall of Phaeton, possibly painted by Jacopo, possibly Cafaggiolo or Montelupo, about 1520, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish, with pronounced footring, painted in blue, yellow, orange, red, copper green with the subject of the Fall of Phaeton covering the whole surface. He is depicted in his two-horse chariot smitten by a flame piercing the clouds, in the upper half of the composition, below is a city on a river bank at the foot of a craggy hill. On the back, intersecting petal motifs transversely striped in blue and red radiating about a wheel motif with sprigs in the interspaces.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 32.5cm
Gallery label
Dish Possibly Painted by Jacopo, possibly Cafaggiolo , Italy, about 1520 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2082-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Fau and Gavet Collections.
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
314 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2082-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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