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

Dish

1540-50 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Urbino (made)
Urbania (made)

Dish with a hound holding a heart in its mouth.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware, painted in colours depicting a hound holding a heart in its mouth and a rebus around the rim, made in Urbino or Castel Durante, 1540-50
Physical description
Dish with a hound holding a heart in its mouth.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 46cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'PERMERTO DE MIA FE' (Painted in the middle on a scroll.)
    Translation
    As a reward for my fidelity
  • 'IN', flames, a mulberry tree, a pear, 'TE', a sheet of music with solfa notation, a grape-wine with stem twisted in form of an S (for In fiamma [or fuoco] mor per te: si fa l'affare? Su, va!) (Italian. Painted on the back)
    Translation
    I am burning for you: are we going to make a business? come on!
Gallery label
  • Dish depicting a hound holding a heart in its mouth Made in Urbino or Castel Durante 1540 to 50 Inscription (in the middle):'PERMERTO DE MIA FE' (As a reward to my fidelity) Tin-glazed earthenware 8390-1863(16/07/2008)
  • DISH with a hound holding a heart in its mouth 1540-50 This dish would have been a love token, and its elaborate decoration is rich in meaning. The faithful dog begs for the reward of his beloved's heart. An inscription on the rim, partly using symbols for missing words, proclaims 'I am burning for you. Are we going to make a business? Come on!' Italy, Urbino or Castel Durante Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) Inscribed in Italian in the centre, 'As a reward for my fidelity' Museum no. 8390-1863(2008)
Subjects depicted
Hounds
Heart
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
609 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
8390-1863

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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