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Dish

ca. 1535 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish depicting Cupid standing in a landscape blowing a trumpet.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish with very low foot, Cupid in landscape blowing trumpet, probably painted by Nicola da Urbino, Urbino or Castel Durante, about 1535, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish depicting Cupid standing in a landscape blowing a trumpet.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 28cm
Gallery label
(16/07/2008)
Dish
Probably painted by Nicola da Urbino, Urbino or Castel Durante , Italy about 1535
Tin-glazed earthenware

C.2218-1910 Salting Bequest
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Hastings Collection.
Production
Rackham, cat.
Urbino, 1525.

J Mallet, 16.11.03

Good painting, reminiscent of Nicola's style. Perhaps figure of FAMA, Cupid's blowing a trumpet. The foot has been ground off slightly, but this hardly changed the shape.
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
563 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2218-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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