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

Plate

ca. 1500 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, glazed earthenware, painted in colours with an arabesque border on an orange ground. In the centre is a head in profile. On the reverse are concentric lines in blue.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate, tin-glazed earthenware, Urbania, ca. 1500.
Physical description
Plate, glazed earthenware, painted in colours with an arabesque border on an orange ground. In the centre is a head in profile. On the reverse are concentric lines in blue.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 25.4cm
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection.
Subjects depicted
Other number
521 - Rackham (1977)
Collection
Accession number
1671-1855

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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