dish
- Museum number
- 1855,1201.114
- Description
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Dish, earthenware covered on the front with a presumed tin-glaze, the back has a thin coat of glaze or slip outside the foot. Front is painted with concentrically arranged decoration. In the centre Pan seated piping and two shepherds looking on. Above Pan's head a shield of arms for Petrucci. Each shepherd holds a shield of arms. The scene is bordered with a running interlace design. On the rim grotesques and three shields of arms.
- Production date
- 1510 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 42 centimetres
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Height: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Thornton & Wilson 2009
See P&D registration no. 1946,0713.12 for an example of Pan depicted in the same way as on this dish.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007-2008 27 Oct-13 Jan, London, National Gallery, 'Renaissance Siena: Art for a City'
1989 12 Sep-15 Oct, Glasgow, Art Gallery & Museum, Ceramics for the Italian Renaissance
1989 22 Jan-2 Apr, Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum & Art Gallery, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Bernal Sale lot 2106 Christie's 5 - 30 April 1855.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.114
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.2106