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

Dish

1525-27 (made)
Artist/Maker
F.R. (painter)
Place of origin
Urbino (made)

The painting on the dish has been adapted from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Dish depicting The Death of Lucretia, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware painted in colours, depicting the death of Lucretia in an architectural setting and with a landscape in the background. A piece of the foot is missing. Some cracks and rim-chips.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27.5cm
  • Depth: 5.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
'AMEINON ATTOONHCKEIN' 'H AICXPWO ZHN' (the original incription is in Greek)
Translation
Better to die than shamefully to live
Gallery label
Dish depicting The Death of Lucretia Inscription: [Better to die than shamefully to live] Tin-glazed earthenware C.2228-1910 Salting Bequest Formerly Piot and Spitzer collections(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Salting Bequest, formerly Piot and Spitzer collections. This piece is clearly the one described in the Leon Becher sale, Paris, 10-12 January 1853. (Catalogue Found by Aileen Dawson in Paris and communicated by Tim Wilson, 1988). Sale catalogue of M Badouiller de Saint Seine, Paris, 15-17 April 1875, lot 45: 'Fabrique d'Urbino. Coupe a pied bas representent Lucrace d'apres la gravure de Marc-Antoine. Vente Piot. Diam 28 cent.' (Information from Mr Norman of Wallace Collection in letter of 26.1.65).
Production
JVGM 23/11/05
Subject depicted
Lucretia
Summary
The painting on the dish has been adapted from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael.
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
797 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.2228-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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