- Museum number
- 1906,0418.1
- Description
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Straight-sided albarello, earthenware, covered on exterior with presumed tin glaze; inside with a thinner tin glaze. Painted in blue, orange and manganese purple with repeated pattern of asterisks, rows of dashes in brackets, squiggles and dots resembling Hispano-Moresque floral designs. One side is an oval medallion with profile portrait of a bearded, long-haired man to dexter in an orientalising hat. Portrait probably after Antonio Pollaiuolo.
- Production date
- 1480-1500 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 11.30 centimetres (lip)
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Height: 26.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Sold Christie's, 12-13 May, 1902, Carmichael Sale, lot 111. See also T. Wilson, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance (London, BMP, 1987), pp.112-15, no.182, figs.xii, xiii; and D. Thornton, 'Maiolica Production in Renaissance Italy' in Pottery in the Making: World Ceramic Traditions, (London, BMP, 1997), pp.116-21.
- Location
- On display (G46/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2015 25 Jun-27 Sep, Krakow, Muzeum Narodwe Krakowie, The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art
2015 26 Feb-31 May, Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts, The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art
2007-2008 7 Feb-15 Jan, Birmingham, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World
2006 12 Apr-25 Jun, London, National Gallery, Bellini and the East
1989 12 Sep-15 Oct, Glasgow, Art Gallery & Museum, Ceramics for the Italian Renaissance
1989 22 Jan-2 Apr, Stoke-on-Trent, City Museum & Art Gallery, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
- Acquisition date
- 1906
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1906,0418.1
