bowl;
wine-cooler
- Museum number
- WB.60
- Description
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Bowl (wine cooler) with scalloped rim. Round the foot two bands of relief ornament of beads and leaves. Two handles in the form of sphinxes. Earthenware covered entirely with a presumed tin-glaze. Painted in the bowl: a scene of Moses with the spring where he struck the rock, behind him people with vessels for water. Above a frieze of winged putti, merpeople and other figures, also medallions with cameo scenes each held by winged putti.
- Production date
- 1580-1610 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 25 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 49.50 centimetres (bowl)
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Diameter: 43 centimetres (inside rim)
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Height: 26 centimetres (total)
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Height: 24 centimetres (up to rim)
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Weight: 8776 grammes
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Width: 64.50 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
- Provenance: Previously in the collection of Andrew Fountaine (by 1835), sold at Christie's London 16th June 1884, lot 390 (£399 to Wareham). It is unknown when it entered the collection of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild.
Bibliography: Fountaine Inventory 1835, 'Cisterns, no.4'; 'Fountaine Family Book v', no. 70; 'Catalogue of the Celebrated Fountaine Collection...Removed from Narford Hall, Norfolk', Christie's, London, June 16 1884, lot 390; Charles Hercules Read, 'The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P., 1898', London, 1902, no.60; O.M. Dalton, 'The Waddesdon Bequest', 2nd edn (rev), British Museum, London, 1927, no.60; Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson with contributions by Michael Hughes and Jeremy Warren, 'Italian Renaissance ceramics : a catalogue of the British Museum collection', British Museum, London, 2009, no.244, fig.244.
- Location
- On display (G2a/dc3)
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Acquisition notes
- This collection is known as the Waddesdon Bequest under the terms of Baron Ferdinand Rothschild’s will.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- WB.60
