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On display at V&A South Kensington

Ceramics, Room 143, The Timothy Sainsbury Gallery

Artist/Maker	Unknown (maker)
Place of origin	Deruta (made)

Makers of Italian maiolica at Deruta and Gubbio adopted the lustre technique of Spain in the 16th century. They developed it to its highest level of refinement. In this technique, a thin layer of metallic oxide is fused on to a decorated vessel of tin-glazed earthenware.

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Categories	Ceramics Maiolica Earthenware SCRAN
Object type	Dish
Materials and techniques	Tin-glazed earthenware Earthenware Tin Glaze Glazing (Coating)
Brief description	Tin-glazed earthenware dish (maiolica), painted in cobalt-blue and yellow lustre with a portrait of lady. Deruta, about 1520.
Physical description	Tin-glazed earthenware dish (maiolica), painted in cobalt-blue and yellow lustre with a portrait of lady.
Dimensions	Diameter: 40cm
Marks and inscriptions	TIMOR DOMINI SVI E FILIVM SVVM (on surface of dish -)
Summary	Makers of Italian maiolica at Deruta and Gubbio adopted the lustre technique of Spain in the 16th century. They developed it to its highest level of refinement. In this technique, a thin layer of metallic oxide is fused on to a decorated vessel of tin-glazed earthenware.
Bibliographic references	Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London : V&A Publications, 1999. 144 p., ill. ISBN 185177260X Mallet, J.V.G.. Transfer printing in Italy and England. Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 2011, vol. 22, pp. 89-115. Illustrated plate 37. 'Italian potters sometimes,. as at 16th -century Deruta or 17th and 18th century Castelli, pricked a series of pin-holes through a drawing or print, and through these pounced rows of dots in charcoal (burnt off during the subsequent firing) with the aid of which a painter could draw his outlines. The half-length of a woman on the Deruta dish (37) was copied from a figure in the frescoes by Pietro Perugino at the Cambio in nearby Perugia. Perugino and his school were themselves in the habit of pouncing outlines through pricked cartoons, so it is likely the potters adapted the process from that of the painters.'
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	7163-1860

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Record created	November 22, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O70631/dish-unknown/

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