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

Dish

ca. 1525 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate depicting a boy riding a stag.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish with deep well (tondino) depicting a boy riding a stag, made in Urbino or Castel Durante about 1525, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate depicting a boy riding a stag.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Urbino or Castel Durante about 1525 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2134-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Fau Collection.
Production
J Mallet, 03.11.03

Border decorated with middle-eastern interlace ('alla damaschina')
Nicola da Urbino style painting, but not painted by him because of the sketchiness of the main image.
Nice quality glaze, successful firing, nice white.
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Italian Maiolica. London : Faber and Faber, 1952. Pl.74c.
  • Chompret, J. Repertoire de la Majolique Italienne. Vol.II. 1949 (reprint Milan, 1986). Fig.941.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
564 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2134-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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