plate
- Museum number
- 1855,1201.45
- Description
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Plate, earthenware covered front and back with a presumed tin-glaze. Painted on the front Aeneas carrying Anchises away from Troy (both are naked) with Ascanius walking ahead (a cloak over his shoulder and a casket in his hand). A shield of arms (perhaps of Squarzioni) hangs from a tree showing Hercules and the lion; the subject is from the Aeneid after an engraving after Raphael.
- Production date
- 1531
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 258 millimetres
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Height: 31 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Thornton & Wilson 2009
The figures and exact quotation are copied from Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio's engraving after Raphael. See P&D registration no. V,5.151.
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In set with 1913,1220.120
Bibliography: Mallet 1970-1971 p.180-182.
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Perhaps this is the piece listed in the Mantuan inventory of 1591 of Gian Jacopo Calandra, no. 5.IV.330, for which see Guido Rebecchini, Private Collectors in Mantua 1500-1630, Rome 2002, p. 360. DFT
- Location
- On display (G46/dc2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2016 1 Aug - 27 Nov, Zurich, Swiss National Museum, 'The Renaissance'
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
- Associated events
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Associated Event: Trojan War
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Associated Event: Hercules and the Nemean Lion
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Aeneid
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Inscription from: Triumph of Love I
- Acquisition date
- 1855
- Acquisition notes
- Bernal Sale lot 1753 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1855,1201.45
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BL.1753 (Bernal Collection)
