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plate
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dish
Object Type
plate
dish
Museum number
1855,1201.73
Description
Plate or dish of earthenware, with foot ring, covered front and back with presumed tin glaze, the front painted. In the well two putti supporting a shield of arms for Calini of Brescia (blue, in bend a yellow ladder with between the rungs a white swallow-tailed flag). Acanthus pattern in bianco sopra bianco on sides of well. On rim a scene from the musical competition between Pan and Apollo, with Midas and Tmolus; derived from Ovid.
Producer name
Painted by:
Nicola da Urbino
Production date
1525
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Urbino
Materials
earthenware
Ware
Maiolica
Technique
tin-glazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
41.60 centimetres
Height:
5.20 centimetres
Curator's comments
Bibliography: Rackham 1928 p.230-236, pl IIIA.
Bibliographic references
Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection
(cat. 145)
Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
(53)
Polidori 1962 / Nicolò Pellipario, con particolare cenno ad una sua fase stilistica
(p349-350)
Giacomotti 1974 / Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux
(no820, p250)
Wilson 1985a / The Origins of the Maiolica Collections of the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum
(pl XXIX, p79)
Location
On display
(G46/dc2)
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
heraldry
myth/legend
classical deity
cherub/cupid
Associated names
Illustration to:
Ovid
Emblem of:
Calini
Representation of:
Apollo
Representation of:
Pan/Faunus
Representation of:
Midas
Representation of:
Tmolus
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 1910 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1855,1201.73
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
BL.1910