Basin
1537 (dated)
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Painted with the scenes from the story of Apollo (Ovid, Metamorphoses, I). On the central boss, which is surrounded by false gadroons in white, is Apollo meeting Cupid. The remaining surface is covered with a landscape with rocks and trees in which, to the right, is Apollo standing on the corpse of the Python, and to the left, the Metamorphoses of Daphne, with the reclining River-god Peneus. On the back is the inscription.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Dish for an ewer depicting scenes from the Story of Apollo, painted by Francesco Urbini, Deruta, dated 1537, tin-glazed earthenware |
| Physical description | Painted with the scenes from the story of Apollo (Ovid, Metamorphoses, I). On the central boss, which is surrounded by false gadroons in white, is Apollo meeting Cupid. The remaining surface is covered with a landscape with rocks and trees in which, to the right, is Apollo standing on the corpse of the Python, and to the left, the Metamorphoses of Daphne, with the reclining River-god Peneus. On the back is the inscription. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '1537 Questa e, Colei, ch', co laurate chiome inamoro, gia`, il sol chel modo vede, e p lei porta, ancor grauose some francco, Urbini, i deruta' (On the back.)
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq. |
| Object history | Comtesse de Cambis and Spitzer Collections. |
| Production | J Mallet, 09-01.2001 Basin, painted with the story of Apollo. dated 1537, elaborately signed in blue on the back. Inscription almost certainly taken from Petrarca's Triumphs. Painted on pale berettino ground with a band of 'bianco sopra bianco' around the central boss. Illustrated in Fiocco and Gherardi, 1988, fig.72 p.111 also in Fiocco and Gherardi, 1994, no.157, p.259 also in Mallet (in memory of Liverani)? |
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| Literary reference | Ovid. <u>Metamorphoses</u>, I |
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| Other number | 778 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | C.2157-1910 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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