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

Basin

ca. 1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Lobed, fluted bassin with out-turned rim on low foot. Painted with grotesque decoration on white groun. A central medallion depicting an enthroned Roman emperor with pleading Gaul ambassadors. Under the foot a painted dolphin.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Basin, externally fluted, with out-turned rim and low foot, probably made in the Patanazzi workshops, Urbino, about 1600, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Lobed, fluted bassin with out-turned rim on low foot. Painted with grotesque decoration on white groun. A central medallion depicting an enthroned Roman emperor with pleading Gaul ambassadors. Under the foot a painted dolphin.
Dimensions
  • Height: 17.5cm
  • Diameter: 38.5cm
Gallery label
Basin Made in Probably Patanazzi workshop, Urbino, Italy About 1600 Tin-glazed earthenware 4696-1858(16/07/2008)
Production
See Gere-Zuccaro (Burlington Mag). p. 314, fig. 40. Rackham, Burlington Sept 1963 says probably Fontana not Patanazzi.
Bibliographic references
  • See Ceramics & Glass Dept Object Information File
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
876 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
4696-1858

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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