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Dish

ca. 1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish for a ewer.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish for a ewer, depicting trophy of shields in the central boss, made in Deruta, Italy, about 1530, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish for a ewer.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 34cm
Marks and inscriptions
'B'

Note
Maker's mark painted in Roman script on the back of the dish.
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Dish depicting trophy of shields in the central boss
Made in Deruta, Italy About 1530
Marked B on the reverse
Tin-glazed earthenware

2605-1856 Delange Collection
Object history
Purchased, Delange, Paris.

Purchase price note: Bought for £2 16s.
Production
J Mallet, 11/02/97
Marked B in blue on the reverse. Unusual leafy rim.
C.f dish with similar decoration in Fiocco & Gherardi, 1994, p.201, fig.83
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Fiocco, Carola and Gabriella Gherardi. La ceramica di Deruta dal XIII al XVIII secolo. Perugia : Volumnia, 1994. 201 p., fig.83.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
754 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
2605-1856

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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