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Object Type: plate
Museum number: 1891,0325.1
Description: Plate of earthenware, covered front and back with blue-grey, presumed tin glaze. Painted mainly in dark blue and white. In the centre a shield of arms on a mount with scrolling ribbons, yellow a two-towered castle blue; above, a winged cherub-head. Surrounding, narrow concentric borders of cable pattern, string-of-beads, stylised leaf scrolls, S-twists. On rim, grotesques including fish, trumpets, books, vases. On reverse flowers and leaf scrolls on the rim.
Producer name: Workshop of: Piero Bergantini (probably)
Production date: 1534
Production place: Made in: Faenza
Materials: earthenware
Ware: Maiolica
Technique: tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 27.60 centimetres; Height: 3.90 centimetres
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Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 91); Rasmussen 1984 / Italienische Majolika (p95)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: heraldry; grotesque; cherub/cupid; plant; leaf
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Samuel Willson
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1891,0325.1
Conservation: Treatment: 02 Sep 2015

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