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

Plate

1485-90 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Maiolica dish with geometric decoration and the coat of arms of King Matthias of Hungary and his wife, Beatrix of Aragon.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish with a deep well, tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration, with the arms of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and his wife.
Physical description
Maiolica dish with geometric decoration and coat of arms of King Matthias Corvinus and his wife, Beatrix of Aragon
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25cm
Style
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection.
This dish was part of a service made for King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1458-90) and his wife, Beatrix of Aragon.
Production
Potters from Pesaro perhaps working in the Royal Palace, Buda
Subject depicted
Summary
Maiolica dish with geometric decoration and the coat of arms of King Matthias of Hungary and his wife, Beatrix of Aragon.
Associated object
7410-1860 (Group)
Bibliographic references
  • Balla, Gabriella and Jékely, Zsombor (eds.) The dowry of Beatrice : Italian maiolica art and the court of King Matthias : exhibitions catalogue, Budapest : Iparművészeti Múzeum, 2008 no.3.50
  • A. Bettini, Sul Servizio di Mattia Corvino e sulla maiolica pesarese della seconda meta del XV secolo, in Faenza, LXXXIII (1997), pp. 169-204, pl. XXV a.
Other number
151 - Rackham (1940)
Collection
Accession number
1738-1855

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Record createdSeptember 8, 1998
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