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

Plate

ca. 1540-1560 (made)
Artist/Maker
Fontana Workshop (maker)
Place of origin
Urbino (made)

Plate depicting Hannibal in a scene from the Second Punic War.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Plate
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Plate depicting Hannibal in a scene from the Second Punic War, made at the Fontana Workshops, Urbino, about 1540-60, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Plate depicting Hannibal in a scene from the Second Punic War.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Anibal uede le reliquje prse / Da suoi sott la fe Cartaginese' (Italian. Painted on back)
  • '97'
Gallery label
Plate depicting Hannibal in a scene from the Second Punic War Made at the Fontana Workshops, Urbino, Italy about 1540-60 Inscription: '97' and 'Anibal uede le reliquje prse/ Da suoi sotto la fe Cartaginese' Tin-glazed earthenware C.2275-1910 Salting Bequest This plate is from a large numbered series, illustrating scenes from the Second Punic War as described in Livy's History of Rome.(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
This plate is from a large numbered series, illustrating scenes from the Second Punic War as described in Livy's History of Rome.
Production
John Mallet 29/6/2000
See Erdberg and Ross, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore Catalogue 1952 pl.59 (Rackham Notes 1960). Check: Mallet, John, "In botega di Maestro Guido durantino in Urbino" in The Burlington Magazine, CXXIX (1987), p.292
and T. Wilson, Smithsonian catalogue.
Subjects depicted
Hannibal
Second Punic War
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Drey, R. Istoriato maiolica with scenes from the Second Punic War. Livy's history of Rome as source material. In: T. Wilson , ed. Italian Renaissance Pottery. London, 1991. pp.51-61.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
821 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.2275-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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