dish

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Object Type
Museum number: 1885,0420.2
Description: Dish, earthenware covered front and back with a presumed tin-glaze. Painted on the front a complicated group of figures and horses representing the Conversion of Saul, in the background a landscape with buildings, in the sky God with a banner. Partly after Michelangelo and after Raphael. The edge is moulded on the reverse.
Producer name: After: Michelangelo; After: Raphael; After: Giulio Romano; After: Marco da Ravenna (?)
Production date: 1530-1540 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Urbino
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 23.30 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 180); Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (84); Marryat 1857 / Collections towards a history of pottery and porcelain (p56-57); 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 (p340)
Location: On display (G46/dc2)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1989 22 Jan-2 Apr, Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum & Art Gallery, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
Subjects: new testament; horse/ass; architecture
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1885
Acquisition notes: Fountaine Sale lot 32 Christie's 16-19 June 1884.
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1885,0420.2
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