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Dish

1732-36 (made)
Artist/Maker
Manufactory of Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti (made)
Giovanni Battista Rossetti (painted)
Place of origin
Lodi (made)

Dish depicting a coast-scene, with fortresses on islands, ships and a distant town.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Maiolica
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Earthenware
Tin Glaze
Brief description
Dish with coastal scene with fortresses on islands, ships and a distant town, painted in blue and purple, made in Lodi, Italy, 1732-36, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish depicting a coast-scene, with fortresses on islands, ships and a distant town.
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.5cm
  • Diameter: 32cm
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Dish
Made in Pavia?, Italy about 1720-30
Tin-glazed earthenware

C.116-1937
Credit line
Bought out of the Lane Memorial Fund
Object history
Ferrari Collection.
Bibliographic references
  • Pelizzoni, E. and M. Forni. La maiolica di Pavia tra Seicento e Settecento. Milano, 1997. 160 p., pl.140.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Recenti acquisti di maiolica italiana al Victoria & Albert Museum di Londra. Faenza. 1938, XXVI. N.4-5, pl.XIXa.
  • F. Ferrari, La Ceramica di Lodi, Lodi, 2003, p. 204, cat. 141, illustrates our dish.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
1228 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.116-1937

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
Record URL
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