bowl; plate

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Object Type: bowl; plate
Museum number: 1854,0213.1
Description: Broad-rimmed bowl or plate with well, earthenware covered on the front and back with a presumed tin-glaze. Painted decoration on the front with red and gold lustre, in the centre a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, on the right a standing river god with a river issuing from a vase on his shoulder, on the left a man apparently carrying the infants to be exposed. Figure to the left from an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi. River god after Caraglio after Raphael.
Producer name: Painted by: Francesco Xanto Avelli; Lustred by: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (workshop of; probably); After: Marcantonio; After: Jacopo Caraglio; After: Giulio Romano
Production date: 1533 (probably)
Production place: Made in: Urbino; Lustred in: Gubbio
Materials
Ware
Technique: lustred; tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 26.60 centimetres; Height: 4 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 165); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (76); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XV.86.50); Fortnum 1873 / A descriptive catalogue of the maiolica, Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian wares in the South Kensington Museum: with historical notes, marks and monograms (p364); Solon 1907 / A History and Description of Italian Majolica (fig42); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (II, no98, fig92, fig281); Syson & Thornton 2001 / Objects of Virtue, Art in Renaissance Italy (p.261, fig.214.)
Location: On display (G46/dc4)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2007 25 Jan-15 Apr, London, Wallace Collection, Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance 1977 London, BM, Animals in Art
Subjects: mammal; myth/legend; deity
Associated names: Representation of: Romulus; Representation of: Remus
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1854
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1854,0213.1

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