bowl; plate

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Object Type: bowl; plate
Museum number: 1851,1201.18
Description: Broad-rimmed bowl or plate with well. Earthenware covered with a presumed tin-glaze on the front and back. Painted decoration with red and golden lustre. In the well a shield of arms; Vitelli impaling Della Staffa, for Niccolo Vitelli and Gentilina Della Staffa; quarterly 1 & 4 blue a crescent in golden lustre, 2 & 3 chequy red lustre and white; all impaling lustre a stirrup grey collared with a coronet; crest a calf couchant, in its dexter hoof a green palm branch. Arms for Niccolo Vitelli and Gentilina Della Staffa.
Producer name
Production date: 1527
Production place: Made in: Gubbio
Excavator/field collector
Materials
Ware
Technique: lustred; tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 20.50 centimetres; Height: 3 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 314); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (169); Marryat 1857 / Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain (p49, fig28); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (I, no207, fig192, fig332); Rackham 1940 / Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (p231); Giacomotti 1974 / Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux (p208)
Location: On display (G46/dc4)
Subjects
Associated names: Emblem of: Gentilina della Staffa; Emblem of: Niccolò Vitelli
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1851,1201.18

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