Dish
ca. 1540 (made)
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Moulded bowl, tin-glazed front and back. Painted in blue, green, orange and yellow. In the centre a profile-bust of a man in Oriental costume facing right. To the right a drapery or scroll inscribed with characters perhaps meant to imitate an Oriental language. The border is scalloped and has foliage and scroll-pattern in compartments, alternately grounded in green, orange and blue. The reverse is coarsely painted with concentric circles and semi-circles of blue and yellow. Tin-glazed overall.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Moulded dish with scallped border, male profile bust in centre surrounded by compartments of scolling foliage, tin-glazed earthenware, made in Faenza, 1535-1550 |
| Physical description | Moulded bowl, tin-glazed front and back. Painted in blue, green, orange and yellow. In the centre a profile-bust of a man in Oriental costume facing right. To the right a drapery or scroll inscribed with characters perhaps meant to imitate an Oriental language. The border is scalloped and has foliage and scroll-pattern in compartments, alternately grounded in green, orange and blue. The reverse is coarsely painted with concentric circles and semi-circles of blue and yellow. Tin-glazed overall. |
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| Object history | Bought from the Soulages Collection (5l) transferred to Circulation, 10th March 1909 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Elisa Sani, Not in Rackham - 'Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert Museum – Part 1', in: Keramos 210 (2010), pp. 1-30, cat. 16 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 8958-1863 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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