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

Plate

ca. 1565 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish with wide well and narrow rim; tin-glazed overall. Painted in manganese purple, blue, green, yellow and orange.
The central image of a woman sailing with her veil in the sea standing upon a swan. To her right and behind her lies the shore.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Brief description
Tin-glazed earthenware plate depicting a female figure riding on a swan, Venice, about 1565
Physical description
Dish with wide well and narrow rim; tin-glazed overall. Painted in manganese purple, blue, green, yellow and orange.
The central image of a woman sailing with her veil in the sea standing upon a swan. To her right and behind her lies the shore.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.6cm
Gallery label
Plate ' ' depicting Female figure riding on a swan Venice about 1565 Tin-glazed earthenware Circ.83-1918(16/07/2008)
Production
J Mallet, 29/02/2000
Venice, 1565. Female figure riding on a swan. Broken but well restored.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Elisa Sani, Not in Rackham - 'Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert Museum – Part 1', in: Keramos 210 (2010), pp. 1-30, cat. 51
  • Lessmann 1979, n. 781, for a similar bowl in Brunswick with Fortune sailing in the sea.
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.83-1918

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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