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

Dish

1535 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dish of tin-glazed earthenware. Sunk centre. Tin-glazed overall; Painted in blue, green, yellow, grey and white. The border contains a green wreath and scroll work in white on the white background ("bianco sopra bianco"). The reverse is plain. The centre contains a scroll with the letters S.P.Q.R. and three shields; one with the date 1535.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Earthenware
Brief description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, Urbania, 1535.
Physical description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware. Sunk centre. Tin-glazed overall; Painted in blue, green, yellow, grey and white. The border contains a green wreath and scroll work in white on the white background ("bianco sopra bianco"). The reverse is plain. The centre contains a scroll with the letters S.P.Q.R. and three shields; one with the date 1535.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 20.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
'S.P.Q.R.' (Inscribed on the shields)
Object history
Provenance: Bernal Collection, transferred to Circulation 1st January 1910
Subjects depicted
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. 43
Collection
Accession number
1773-1855

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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