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Object Type
Museum number: 1855,1201.105
Description: Plate, earthenware covered front and back with a grey-blue presumed tin-glaze. The front is painted with a landscape with buildings, on the right a man carrying a club, on the left a seated woman. The scene is perhaps of Polyphemus and Galatea from Ovid. The reverse has pairs of yellow lines round the rim and foot.
Producer name: Workshop of: Nicola dai Putti (probably); Painted by: Nicola dai Putti (perhaps)
Production date: 1564
Production place: Made in: Padua (?)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 25.80 centimetres; Height: 4.80 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Bibliography: Moschetti 1931 fig.39-41; Liverani 1958 p.43.
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 66); 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 (p606, p612); Rackham 1940 / Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (p332)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: myth/legend; architecture; landscape
Associated names: Illustration to: Ovid; Representation of: Polyphemus; Representation of: Galatea
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Webb; Purchased through: Christie's
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1855
Acquisition notes: Bernal Sale lot 2058 Christie's 5 - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,1201.105
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BL.2058

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