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dish
Object Type
dish
Museum number
AF.3318
Description
Dish on low foot. Earthenware covered front and back with presumed tin glaze. Painted with a portrait of a young man in profile; on a scroll "LVTIO 1524".
Production date
1524
Production place
Made in:
Urbino
(?;vicinity)
Made in:
Castel Durante
(?)
Materials
earthenware
Ware
Maiolica
Technique
tin-glazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
21.30 centimetres
Height:
4.20 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Bibliography: Polidori 1953 pl. XXIX.
Bibliographic references
Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection
(cat. 203)
Wilson 1987 / Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance
(229)
Ballardini 1933-1938 / Corpus della maiolica italiana
(I, no137, fig135)
Rackham 1940 / Catalogue of Italian Maiolica
(p186)
Bayer 2008 / Art and love in Renaissance Italy
(no. 13b)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2011-2012 11 Oct-27 Feb, France, Château d’Ecouen, Musée National de la Renaissance, La Faïence des Humanistes, le décor de la majolique italienne entre 1480 et 1530 2009 15 Mar-14 Jun, USA, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Art and Love in Renaissance Italy 2008 17 Nov-2009 15 Feb, USA, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
Associated names
Named in inscription & portrayed:
Lutio
Acquisition name
Bequeathed by:
Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks
Acquisition date
1897
Department
Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number
AF.3318
Conservation
Treatment
: 19 Jul 2011