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

Plate

1533 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate depicting an astrologer reclining and measuring a celestial globe.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Plate depicting astrologer reclining and measuring celestial globe, attributed to the workshop of Guido Durantino, Urbino, dated 1533, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate depicting an astrologer reclining and measuring a celestial globe.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20cm
Gallery label
Plate Attributed to the workshop of Guido Durantino, Urbino, Italy dated 1533 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2249-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Fountaine Collection.
Production
J Mallet, 13/01/04
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Hind, A. M. Early italian Engravings. 1948, Vol.VII. Pl.777.
  • Moore, Andrew W. Norfolk & the Grand Tour : eighteenth-century travellers abroad and their souvenirs. Norwich : Norfolk Museums Service, 1985. 101 p. Catalogue issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Norwich Castle Museum, Oct. 5-Nov. 24, 1985, for the Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Festival.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
816 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2249-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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