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On short term loan out for exhibition

Dish

ca. 1540 (made)
Artist/Maker
Lodovico (Maestro) (maker)
Place of origin
Venice (made)

Dish depicting, in blue and white, Hercules wrestling with Antaeus.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Dish depicting, in blue and white, Hercules wrestling with Antaeus, workshop of Maestro Lodovico, Venice, Italy, about 1540, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish depicting, in blue and white, Hercules wrestling with Antaeus.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.5cm
  • Height: 5cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Maestro Lodovico, Venice, Italy about 1540 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2132-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Subject depicted
Homoerotic
Bibliographic references
  • Bortolotto, A. Alverà. Storia della ceramica a Venezia. Firenze, 1988. Pl.LVII.
  • Lane, A. Style in Pottery. London, 1973. Pl.29.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
  • Tsoumis, Karine, Maiolica in Renaissance Venice: Ceramics and Luxury at the Crossroads.Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2021 p.73 and p.88
  • Exhibited at the Burlington Fine ArtsClub in 1887, see "BFAC Catalogue of Specimens of Hispano-Moresque and Majolica Pottery" No. 140A;, also Fortnum maiolica", 1896 p.301, where the subject is incorrectly described as being from a print by Marc Antonio after Pollaiuolo, and Solon "" History and Description of Italian Maiolica" 1907; Fig. 46
Other number
959 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.2132-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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