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

Cup

ca. 1560 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Urbino (made)

Cup in the shape of a crab shell, made in Urbino, Italy, about 1540-50, tin-glazed earthenware, moulded


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Cup
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, moulded
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Cup in the shape of a crab shell, made in Urbino, Italy, about 1540-50, tin-glazed earthenware, moulded
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.5cm
  • Width: 18cm
Gallery label
Cup depicting crab shell Made in Urbino, Italy about 1560 Tin-glazed earthenware, moulded C.2277-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Production
The Fountaine piece is now in Faenza, Don. CORA. 1985, NO.339 (p.141).
Subjects depicted
Shells
Crab (Crustacean)
Bibliographic references
  • Lessmann, Johanna. Italienische Maiolika: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig. Braunschweig, 1979. 198 p., catalogue entry 186.
  • Bojani, G.C., C. Ravanelli Guidotti and A. Fanfani. La donazione Galeazzo Cora: ceramiche dal medioevo al XIX secolo. Milano, 1985. Cat.339, 141 p.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
849 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.2277-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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