bowl; plate

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Object Type: bowl; plate
Museum number: 1855,1201.69
Description: Broad-rimmed bowl or plate with well. Earthenware covered front and back with presumed tin glaze, the front with painted decoration and pink and golden lustre. In the well an ogee quatrefoil with foliate scrollwork and a cross, and the letters "F", "G" and "KO", with a hand in the centre, probably a monastic emblem. On the rim, grotesques and a word. On reverse, in golden brown lustre, scrolls alternating with a crossed diamond pattern.
Producer name
Production date: 1518
Production place: Made in: Gubbio
Materials
Ware
Technique: lustred; tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 24.50 centimetres; Height: 5.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 295); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (160); Fortnum 1896 / Maiolica (p165, Mark 85); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (I, no70, fig67, fig253R); Rackham 1940 / Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (p216)
Location: On display (G46/dc4)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 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
Subjects: grotesque; plant; leaf; cross
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Webb; Purchased through: Christie's
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1855
Acquisition notes: Bernal Sale lot 1892 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,1201.69
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BL.1892
Conservation: Treatment: 25 Jun 1997; Treatment: 18 Jul 1994

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