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

Dish

1650-1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted in black on a turqoise ground, Albisola, Italy, 1650-1700


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware painted in black on a turqoise ground, Albisola, Italy, 1650-1700
Marks and inscriptions
The crowned shield of arms of Savoy (in purple)
Gallery label
Dish Made in Italy Tin-glazed earthenware C.5-1959(16/07/2008)
Production
Compare G. Morazzoni, La maiolica antica ligure, Milan 1951, Figs 32-34 (painted blue and white with similar designs

A jug similarly painted in black on ???? is in the Truro Museum.

A smaller plate of the same palette dug up in fragmentary state at Southampton is illustrated by J.V.G. Mallet, "l' Importazione della Maiolica italiana in Inghilterra", Atti V, Centro Ligure per la storia della Ceramica, Albissola, 1972
Bibliographic reference
Cecilia Chilosi (ed), Ceramiche della tradizione Ligure: thesaurus di opere dal Medio Evo al primo Novecento, Milan, 2011, pp. 78-79, cat. 68, our plate illustrated and discussed, attributed to the Manufattura Grosso in Albisola.
Collection
Accession number
C.5-1959

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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