Fruit Dish
ca. 1520 to 1525 (made)
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Painted in blue and copper green and in pale ruby and brassy yellow lustre, with a monk playing an organ, a tonsured boy standing by singing from a book, a dog or a sheep howling to the left, and to the right, a man in a cap blowing the organ-bellows. Above the manual is a sheet of music with the inscription. A vase of flowers to the left of the organ. On the back, scale-pattern enclosing lozenges.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Tin-glazed earthenware |
| Brief description | Tazza, painted tin-glazed earthenware. Dish on foot (fruttiera) depicting monks at an organ, made in Deruta, about 1520 to 1525 |
| Physical description | Painted in blue and copper green and in pale ruby and brassy yellow lustre, with a monk playing an organ, a tonsured boy standing by singing from a book, a dog or a sheep howling to the left, and to the right, a man in a cap blowing the organ-bellows. Above the manual is a sheet of music with the inscription. A vase of flowers to the left of the organ. On the back, scale-pattern enclosing lozenges. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 'Adi celo el mio lameto'
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| Gallery label | Fruit dish
Probably made in Gubbio about 1525
Inscription: :"Adi celo el mio lameto"
Tin-glazed earthenware
C.2183-1910 Bequeathed by George Salting(16/07/2008) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq. |
| Object history | Zschille Collection. Zschille Sale Cat., Christie's, 1 June 1899, Lot 86. |
| Production | H. Colin Slim of the University of California wrote in in 1984 identifying the music as Bartolomeo Tromboncino's Frottola, "Audi [or Odi] cielo il mio lamento" first printed by Antico at Venice in 1520, but surviving earlier in an arrangement for organ printed by Antico in Rome in 1517. For further detail see L.M. 1273 J Mallet, 25.07.2000 Dish on foot. Red and gold lustre. The overpainting can be removed. Inscribed with :"Adi celo el mio lameto" |
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| Other number | 448 - Rackham (1977) |
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| Accession number | C.2183-1910 |
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| Record created | July 16, 2008 |
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