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

Food Warmer

ca.1770-1780 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Food warmer with cover and liner, made in Italy, tin-glazed earthenware


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Stand
  • Cover
  • Saucepan
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Food warmer with cover and liner, made in Italy, tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
  • Overall height: 24.5cm
  • Diameter: 17.5cm
Gallery label
Food warmer with cover and liner Made in Italy Tin-glazed earthenware C.596-1909 Given by J.H. Fitzhenry(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Given by J. H. Fitzhenry
Production
Symbol on brim identified (wrongly ?) as 'Bruccia Profumi' in V.Viale, La Raccolta Ceramica del Museo Civico di Torino, Turin (1932), fig 63, and p.43 : Saul Levy, Maioliche Settecentesche Lombarde & Venete, Milan (1962), fig 303 (Information of Mrs H. Newman, Nov 1963.
Bibliographic reference
Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1270 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.596 to B-1909

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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