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bowl
;
plate
Object Type
bowl
plate
Museum number
1878,1230.391
Description
Broad-rimmed bowl or plate with well and foot ring. Earthenware covered front and back with presumed tin glaze. Painted and lustred decoration. On front in the centre, a winged putto in a red-lustred necklace holding a flail, astride a dolphin. On the rim, grotesques incorporating dolphins, plants, torches, roundels and winged cherub heads. One reverse concentric lines in orange-brown lustre.
Producer name
Workshop of:
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli
(probably)
Production date
1525-1530
(circa)
Production place
Made in:
Gubbio
(probably)
Materials
earthenware
Ware
Maiolica
Technique
lustred
tin-glazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
23.30 centimetres
Height:
5 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection
(cat. 317)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
mammal
grotesque
cherub/cupid
plant
leaf
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
John Henderson
Acquisition date
1878
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
1878,1230.391