bowl; plate

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Object Type: bowl; plate
Museum number: 1878,1230.390
Description: Broad-rimmed bowl or plate with well. Earthenware covered on the front with presumed tin glaze; translucent glaze on the back. Painted and lustred decoration (golden and red): in the centre, Cupid, winged, standing bound and blindfolded. On the rim, grotesques incorporating four roundels with musical instruments, two of them carry an owner's mark, "S". On the reverse bands of yellow lustre and floral scrolls in red lustre.
Producer name
Production date: 1524
Production place: Made in: Gubbio
Excavator/field collector
Materials
Ware
Technique: tin-glazed (front); glazed (back); lustred
Dimensions: Diameter: 25.80 centimetres; Height: 4.80 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 304); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (165); Henderson 1868 / Works of Art in Pottery, Glass, and Metal in the Collection of John Henderson (pl VI); Solon 1907 / A History and Description of Italian Majolica (pl XIV); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (I, no142, fig143, fig293)
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; myth/legend; classical deity; plant; leaf
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Acquisition notes: Bernal Sale lot 1739 Christie's 5 March - 30 April 1855.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1878,1230.390
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