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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. 1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate (Dish) with high foot, painted in dark blue, opaque white, yellow, deep orange, copper green. In the middle, in a medallion, the Adoration of the Shepherds, to the right, the Virgin seated under a tree with the child on her knees, to the left, three shepherds one of whom kneels in adoration, in the distance, mountains. On the rim, in reserve heightened with white on a dark blue ground, a symmetrical repeating design of winged monsters holding ewers confronted on either side of a winged mask. On the back, four sketchy flower motives alternating with crossed lozenges, a similar lozenge in the middle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Plate (Dish) depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds, made in Faenza, Italy, about 1530, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate (Dish) with high foot, painted in dark blue, opaque white, yellow, deep orange, copper green. In the middle, in a medallion, the Adoration of the Shepherds, to the right, the Virgin seated under a tree with the child on her knees, to the left, three shepherds one of whom kneels in adoration, in the distance, mountains. On the rim, in reserve heightened with white on a dark blue ground, a symmetrical repeating design of winged monsters holding ewers confronted on either side of a winged mask. On the back, four sketchy flower motives alternating with crossed lozenges, a similar lozenge in the middle.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24cm
Gallery label
Plate Made in Faenza, Italy about 1530 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2097-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Castellani Collection.
Production
The figure painting is close in style to that of Master "C.I."
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
281 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2097-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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