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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

ca. 1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Moulded dish on low foot, depicting St. John the Baptist in the centre. The border shows embossed pine-cones, set radially, with foliage and connecting bands between. On the back, four rough spirals painted in red lustre. Painted in blue and green and with red and gold lustre.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Moulded dish on low foot, depicting St. John the Baptist, made in Gubbio, about 1530, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Moulded dish on low foot, depicting St. John the Baptist in the centre. The border shows embossed pine-cones, set radially, with foliage and connecting bands between. On the back, four rough spirals painted in red lustre. Painted in blue and green and with red and gold lustre.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.5cm
Gallery label
Dish Made in Gubbio, Italy About 1530 Tin-glazed earthenware C.36-1923 The Alfred Williams Hearn Gift(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Alfred Williams Hearn Gift
Production
John Mallet, 4-2-1999
Bibliographic references
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. Ceramiche Umbre. Faenza. 1988, vol.II. pp.373
  • Giacomotti, J. Catalogue des majoliques des Musées Nationaux. Paris, 1974. Nos.712, 713, 731.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
708 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.36-1923

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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