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Museum number: 1878,1230.403
Description: Broad-rimmed bowl. Earthenware covered front and back with presumed tin glaze. Painted decoration on front with golden and red lustre. In centre a shield of arms for Jacopo Pesaro, Bishop of Paphos: per pale indented lustre and blue; above it a cross. To the left an old man in a cloak, to right a winged female or angel; below a young man lying on the ground. Figures after Marcantonio and Bandinelli; central figure after Caraglio after Raphael.
Producer name: Painted by: Francesco Xanto Avelli; Lustred by: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (?); After: Marcantonio; After: Baccio Bandinelli; After: Jacopo Caraglio; After: Raphael
Production date: 1535
Production place: Made in: Urbino; Lustred in: Gubbio (?)
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: Comte James Alexandre de Pourtalès-Gorgier; Field Collection by: Alessandro Castellani
Materials
Ware
Technique: lustred; tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 18.50 centimetres; Height: 3.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Pourtalès Sale lot 1696 Paris 6 February 1865 Castellani Sale lot 704 Christie's 12 May 1871
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 168); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (200); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIV.89.104); Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana (II, no199, fig193, fig351)
Location: On display (G1/wp178)
Subjects: heraldry; angel; allegory/personification
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1878,1230.403
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