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

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Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, painted in dark blue, yellow, copper green, dark red, opaque white. In the middle, within a border of sprigs, a hound sleeping in a landscape with the words SVM FVI ERO inscribed on a scroll above him. On the rim, two sheets of music alternating with two wreaths enclosing shields, amongst a symmetrical design of winged masks, dolphins, cherubs, open books and scrollwork. The shields are charged - one, with the arms of Martellini, of Florence - Gules a falcon proper perched on a mount of six summits or debruised by a bend (azure), the other, Or a lion rampant azure debruised by three bars gules. On the back, four sketchy floral sprays alternating with knots and the 'fire-wheel' of the Casa Pirota through which, before the firing of the enamel, a B has been scratched to the underlying body.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate depicting a hound sleeping in landscape with words 'SVM FVI ERO', shields, masks, and dolphins on rim, made in Faenza, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate, painted in dark blue, yellow, copper green, dark red, opaque white. In the middle, within a border of sprigs, a hound sleeping in a landscape with the words SVM FVI ERO inscribed on a scroll above him. On the rim, two sheets of music alternating with two wreaths enclosing shields, amongst a symmetrical design of winged masks, dolphins, cherubs, open books and scrollwork. The shields are charged - one, with the arms of Martellini, of Florence - Gules a falcon proper perched on a mount of six summits or debruised by a bend (azure), the other, Or a lion rampant azure debruised by three bars gules. On the back, four sketchy floral sprays alternating with knots and the 'fire-wheel' of the Casa Pirota through which, before the firing of the enamel, a B has been scratched to the underlying body.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'B' (Incised in glaze before firing. In Gothic script on the back)
  • Sketchy floral sprays, fire-wheel of Casa Pirota (Incised in glaze before firing, on the back)
  • 'SVM FVI ERO'
Gallery label
Plate depicting the arms of Martellini, of Florence and an unidentified coat of arms. Made in Faenza, Italy Inscription: 'SVM FVI ERO' [....] Mark: a crossed circle with a smaller circle inside and 'B' incised in the glaze before firing Tin-glazed earthenware C.2098-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
The method of marking (inscribed in glaze before firing) is close to that of Rackham 282.
Subject depicted
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
284 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2098-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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