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

Ewer

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

Ewer with channelled lip, painted in blue, yellow, orange and copper green. On the front of the shoulder, in a medallion flanked by scrolled stems with formal flowers, as shield charged Azure a fesse or. The lower part of the body painted with false gadroons, the foot with foliage, crossed lozenges on the handle.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Ewer depicting Arms of the Baglioni family of Perugia in medallion, made in Deruta, Italy, about 1530, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Ewer with channelled lip, painted in blue, yellow, orange and copper green. On the front of the shoulder, in a medallion flanked by scrolled stems with formal flowers, as shield charged Azure a fesse or. The lower part of the body painted with false gadroons, the foot with foliage, crossed lozenges on the handle.
Dimensions
  • Height: 20cm
  • Diameter: 14.5cm
Gallery label
Ewer depicting arms of the Baglioni family of Perugia Made in Deruta, Italy about 1530 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2068-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Hastings Collection.
Production
Rackham, catalogue
Deruta, about 1520.

J Mallet, 19.02.02
Arms of the Baglioni family of Perugia. Look at coat-of-arms in Fiocco and Gherardi, 2001, Gillet catalogue, cat.90 p.113 and for futher notes.
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Fiocco, Carola, Gabriella Gherardi and Liliane Sfeir-Fakhri. Majoliques Italiennes du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon: Collection Gillet. Dijon : Faton, 2001.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
424 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2068-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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