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Dish

1500-1520 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish, painted in blue, yellow, orange, copper green, dark red, and manganese purple. In the middle, in a landscape, an allegorical figure of Philosophy, adapted from one of a series of Florentine engravings wrongly known as the 'Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna', a woman in a garb resembling that of Athena, holding a shield with a scorpion and a long arrow barb downwards. On the rim, trophies of antique weapons connected by a ribbon, in reserve on an orange ground. The back plain.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish depicting the allegorical figure of Philosophy, painted by the "Painter of the Papal Procession", Cafaggiolo, 1500-20, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish, painted in blue, yellow, orange, copper green, dark red, and manganese purple. In the middle, in a landscape, an allegorical figure of Philosophy, adapted from one of a series of Florentine engravings wrongly known as the 'Tarocchi Cards of Mantegna', a woman in a garb resembling that of Athena, holding a shield with a scorpion and a long arrow barb downwards. On the rim, trophies of antique weapons connected by a ribbon, in reserve on an orange ground. The back plain.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 35.5cm
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Dish
Painted by the "Painter of the Papal Procession", Cafaggiolo, Italy 1500-20
Tin-glazed earthenware

C.2127-1910 Salting Bequest
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Gavet Collection.
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
321 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2127-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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