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Object Type: dish
Museum number: 1855,1201.80
Description: Broad dish of earthenware, covered front and back with presumed tin glaze. Painted with a landscape: lower centre, Psyche asleep; upper left, Psyche carried off by Zephyrs; right a pillared building, table, fountain and four women (one of them Psyche). Scene and verses on reverse are from the Psyche series, after Apuleius, engraved by the Master of the Die, said by Bartsch to be after Raphael.
Producer name: Workshop of: Virgiliotto Calamelli (probably); After: Master of the Die; After: Raphael
Production date: 1550-1560 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Faenza (probably)
Materials: earthenware
Ware: Maiolica
Technique: tin-glazed; engraved
Dimensions: Diameter: 43.70 centimetres; Height: 5 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 107); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (106); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XV.215.44); 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 (p342)
Location: On display (G1/wp178)
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: myth/legend; landscape
Associated names: Illustration to: Apuleius; Representation of: Psyche
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 1937 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,1201.80
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BL.1937
Conservation: Treatment: 08 Jul 2003

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