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

Dish

ca. 1525 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish depicting an open music book below the arms of Gonzaga.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Dish on low foot depicting an open music book below the arms of Gonzaga, probably made in Urbino, about 1525, tin-glazed earthenware
Physical description
Dish depicting an open music book below the arms of Gonzaga.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 24.5cm
Gallery label
Dish Probably made in Urbino , Marches about 1525 Tin-glazed earthenware C.2224-1910 Salting Bequest(16/07/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.
Object history
Barker and Castellani Collections.
Production
H. Colin Slein (?), in 1984, suggested that the music is stylistically similar to the bycinia in a MS in the Vienne Nationalbibliothek, No 18832, copied in c. 1521-25 for Raimund Fugger the Elder, and especially to bicinium No 5. See L. M.
J. V.G. Mallet in Splendours of the Gonzaga (1981) attributes it to Casteldurante or Urbino.

J Mallet, 01.03.02

Arms of Gonzaga. For dating see Gonzaga catalogue, 1981, no.198.
Bibliographic references
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian maiolica. London : H.M.S.O., 1977.
  • Chambers, David and Jane Martineau. Splendours of the Gonzaga. London : Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981. No.198. Exhibition catalogue.
  • Rackham, Bernard. Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London : H.M.S.O., 1977
Other number
567 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
C.2224-1910

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Record createdJuly 16, 2008
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