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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Cup

1724-1727 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and with figures in a landscape. Bell-shaped with no handle. On either side are medallions surrounded by scrollwork and foliage with, on one side, Venus seated watching Cupid who is shaving his bow, and on the other with Venus seated and putting her arms about Cupid.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded
Brief description
Cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, possibly painted by Lodovico Ortolani, Vezzi porcelain factory, Venice, 1724-1727.
Physical description
Cup of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded, and with figures in a landscape. Bell-shaped with no handle. On either side are medallions surrounded by scrollwork and foliage with, on one side, Venus seated watching Cupid who is shaving his bow, and on the other with Venus seated and putting her arms about Cupid.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8.3cm
  • Diameter: 7.6cm
Gallery label
Cup Porcelain Perhaps painted by Lodovico Ortalani with subjects taken from "Scherzi d'Amore", a set of engravings by 0. Fialetti and published in Venice in 1617. ITALY (VENICE, VEZZI); 1724-7 C.15-1911 (Label draft attributed to John V. G. Mallet, ca. 1995)(ca. 1995)
Object history
Painted with subjects taken from "Scherzi d'Amore", a set of engravings by O. Fialetti and published in Venice in 1617.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.15-1911

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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