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Object Type: dish
Museum number: 1855,1201.42
Description: Shallow dish, low slightly spreading foot, earthenware covered with a bluish lilac glaze. The front is painted with Apollo with a lyre and nine Muses in a landscape, in the sky three winged putti with wreaths. After an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi after Raphael. Painted on the underside with concentric rings. Inside the foot a mark.
Producer name: Made by: Trident Workshop; After: Marcantonio; After: Raphael
Production date: 1525-1540 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Montelupo Fiorentino (probably)
Materials: earthenware
Ware: Maiolica
Technique: tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 24.80 centimetres; Height: 5.70 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 131); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (188); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIV.200.247); 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 (p519)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: myth/legend; classical deity; cherub/cupid
Associated names: Representation of: Apollo; Representation of: Muses
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Webb; Purchased through: Christie's
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Ralph Bernal
Acquisition date: 1855
Acquisition notes: Bernal Sale lot 1746 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,1201.42
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BL.1746
Conservation: Treatment: 17 Aug 2004

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