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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Dish

ca. 1546 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish or childbirth platter depicting a birth scene surrounded by eight oval medallions.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish depicting a birth scene surrounded by eight oval medallions, probably made in Urbino, Italy, about 1545, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish or childbirth platter depicting a birth scene surrounded by eight oval medallions.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 41.5cm
Style
Gallery label
Dish Probably made in Urbino, Italy about 1546, probably by the painter of the Coal-mine Service Tin-glazed earthenware C.2223-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Parpart Collection.
Production
Probably by the Painter of the Coal-mine Service
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Shapiro, Maurice L. A. Renaissance Birth plate. The Art Bulletin. 1967. pp.236-243.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1006 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2223-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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