Maker: Unidentified Deruta pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and with yellow lustre. Circular with a broad slightly sloping rim and small deep well.
From a central blue rosette, simplified peacock's feather eye pattern radiates over the whole of the upper surface.
History note: William Morris (d. 1896); Miss May Morris.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund.
Diameter: 21.5 cm
Height: 4.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-05-05) by Morris, May
16th Century, first half#
Renaissance
Circa
1500
-
1550
Lustred dishes decorated with peacock feather eye pattern are attributed to Deruta on the basis of sherds found there in the vicinity of kiln sites. The design also occurs on the large display dishes, often described today as piatti da pompa, which are one of the most characteristic products of Deruta potteries in the sixteenth century. There are numerous examples of the design on dishes and bowls of different shapes and sizes. See the Documention. Less commonly the pattern occurs in polychrome, for example on a dish in the Bargello in Florence. The deep narrow well and broad rim of this bowl probably indicates that it was made during the first third of the century. During the 1530s broad-rimmed bowls generally had a wider, shallower well, and they began to go out of fashion after about 1540, possibly because of the fashion for all-over istoriato decoration. The persistence of the pattern into the 1540s is shown by its occurrence on the reverse of a basin in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, which is moulded with the same design as one dated 1546 in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue) reduced pigment lustre ( silver-yellow appearing lustrous yellow)
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue and with silver-yellow lustre.
Lustre-painting
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.14-1931
Primary reference Number: 48560
Glaisher Additions number: Gl. Add. 28
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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