bowl

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Object Type: bowl
Museum number: 1855,1201.95
Description: Shallow bowl on low foot with a slight moulding round the foot. Earthenware covered front and back with presumed tin glaze. Front painted with a landscape with buildings: in the centre a hillock with an arched opening; a man attacks a woman with a knife; two winged putti leave the scene. After Bandinelli's 'Massacre of the Innocents'.
Producer name: Painted by: Francesco Xanto Avelli; Painted by: FR (?); After: Baccio Bandinelli; After: Marco da Ravenna
Production date: 1527-1531 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Urbino
Materials: earthenware
Ware: Maiolica
Technique: tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 25.90 centimetres; Height: 4.80 centimetres
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Curator's comments: Cioci, La Villa Imperiale 2009, p. 68 illustrates and describes this dish saying it shows Francesco Maria della Rovere running away, fleeing following the attack on his mother, Rome-Venus at centre.
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 157); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (72); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIV.24.21)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: myth/legend; cherub/cupid
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 2006 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1855,1201.95
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: BL.2006

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