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

Jug

early 15th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown (maker)
Place of origin
Faenza (made)

Trefoil mouth, fat belly contracting in a concave curve and spreading again at the foot. Loop handle. On the front is a posy of three flowers rudely painted in blue with purple outlines, in a wreath consisting of blue dots (berries) on the end of stalks.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Earthenware
Object type
Jug
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Buff earthenware covered with a tin glaze and painted with flowers within a wreath. Italian (Faenza), early 15th century.
Physical description
Trefoil mouth, fat belly contracting in a concave curve and spreading again at the foot. Loop handle. On the front is a posy of three flowers rudely painted in blue with purple outlines, in a wreath consisting of blue dots (berries) on the end of stalks.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20.5cm
  • Diameter: 12.5cm
Gallery label
  • Jug Made in Faenza, Italy Early 15th century Tin-glazed earthenware C.911-1936 Henry Wallis Collection(16/07/2008)
  • Jug, Faenza, about 1400-20(2010 (ES))
Credit line
Bought
Object history
Purchase: Henry Wallis Collection.
Purchase price note: C.901 to C.911-1936 bought for £60.
Historical context
Rackham: Compare a jug from the wall of the church of the Osservanti, Imola. See Argnani, Rinascimento, where it is stated that many fragments of similar jugs were dug up on the site of the Casa Pirota, Faenza.
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2nd edition, 1977
  • Argnani, Federico, Il rinascimento delle ceramiche maiolicate in Faenza, Faenza, 1898
  • Conti G, and A. Alinari, Zaffera et simila nella maiolica italiana, Viterbo, 1992.
  • Revew Faenza, 1992, III, IV.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
102 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.911-1936

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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