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Object Type: dish
Museum number: 1901,0717.1
Description: Dish with narrow rim, pronounced foot ring. Yellow-buff earthenware, tin-glazed front and back. Painted on the front with the Judgement of Paris; to the right a river god; in the sky Jupiter, Apollo, Victory and other figures. After an engraving by Marcantonio. `Egg-and-dart' pattern round the edge. On the reverse, yellow lines round edges of rim and foot-ring. Glaze has run inside the foot-ring.
Producer name: Workshop of: Fontana Family (?); Workshop of: Patanazzi Family (?); After: Marcantonio; After: Raphael
Production date: 1560-1590 (circa)
Production place: Made in: Urbino
Excavator/field collector: Field Collection by: James Reiss
Materials: earthenware
Ware: Maiolica
Technique: tin-glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 43 centimetres; Height: 5.30 centimetres
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Curator's comments: Thornton & Wilson 2009 The maiolica painter has based his figures on an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, after a drawing by Raphael. See P&D registration no. H,2.24.; Bibliography: Reiss Sale lot 112 Christie's 10 May 1900.
Bibliographic references: Thornton & Wilson 2009 / Italian Renaissance Ceramics: a catalogue of the British Museum collection (cat. 200); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XIV.197.245)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: myth/legend; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Paris; Representation of: Zeus/Jupiter; Representation of: Apollo; Representation of: Nike/Victoria/Victory
Associated events: Associated Event: Judgement of Paris
Acquisition name: Donated by: Charles J Wertheimer
Acquisition date: 1901
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1901,0717.1
Conservation: Treatment: 08 Jul 2003

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