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Object Type
Museum number: 1855,1201.94
Description: Broad-rimmed bowl of earthenware covered front and back with presumed tin glaze. Painted on the front with buildings and animals; left, a woman, probably the Vestal Tuccia, carrying water in a sieve; right, a man beneath a baldacchino, holding a wand. Also three coats of arms, one being those of Guadagni. On the reverse a scale pattern.
Producer name
Production date: 1534
Production place: Made in: Faenza
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 24.70 centimetres; Height: 4.70 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 93); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (102); Frati 1852 / Del Museo Pasolini in Faenza, Descrizione (no78); 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 (p486); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (II, no123, fig120, fig299); Rackham 1940 / Catalogue of Italian Maiolica (p263)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: animal; heraldry; myth/legend
Associated names: Illustration to: Valerius Maximus; Representation of: Vestal Virgin; Representation of: Tuccia; Emblem of: Guadagni
Associated titles
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Webb; Purchased through: Christie's
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Ralph Bernal; Previous owner/ex-collection: Pasolini
Acquisition date: 1855
Acquisition notes: Bernal Sale lot 1999 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,1201.94
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BL.1999
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