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

Plate

ca. 1530 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate, the Sacrifice of Cain, Shape 6. Painted in blue, green, brown, orange, yellow and black.
In a landscape, on the left on a hill top Abel is represented a first time with God appearing in a cloud, in the middle by two altars Cain has already given a blow to Abel and it is about to strike again, on the floor on the right, bleeding from his chest and leg, Abel. Broken in several pieces, and put together again.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Tin glazed earthenware
Brief description
Plate with the Sacrifice of Cain, Urbino, ca 1530
Physical description
Plate, the Sacrifice of Cain, Shape 6. Painted in blue, green, brown, orange, yellow and black.
In a landscape, on the left on a hill top Abel is represented a first time with God appearing in a cloud, in the middle by two altars Cain has already given a blow to Abel and it is about to strike again, on the floor on the right, bleeding from his chest and leg, Abel. Broken in several pieces, and put together again.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 27.6cm
Object history
Purchase. Formerly Bernal Collection; transferred to Circulation in 1909
Production
Circle of the Apollo Basin Painter
Bibliographic reference
Elisa Sani, Not in Rackham - 'Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Victoria and Albert Museum – Part 1', in: Keramos 210 (2010), pp. 1-30, cat. 30
Collection
Accession number
1703-1855

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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