shaving-bowl
- Museum number
- 1887,0713.4
- Description
-
Basin with undulating border; tin-glazed earthenware; oval-shaped; cut-out edge raised; white ground and blue decoration, lion with formal plants, trees and a bird (derived from Italian decoration, Savona).
- Production date
- 17thC(late)
- Curator's comments
- Copies Ligurian prototypes with undulating borders and bold painting in blue, another of same form in VAM, copied from Baroque silver
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Acquisition notes
- Lady Charlotte Schreiber's diary for 1871 records a visit to Seville where she bought this piece, painted with a lion and elabroate border which came from the Monastery of San Clemente. See Ray 1998, p. 219
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1887,0713.4
