Dish: C.83-1927

Maker(s)

Potter: Unknown

Entities

• Dish
• dish for a ewer

Categories

• Tin-glazed earthenware
• Maiolica

Description

Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange.
Shape 70. Circular with a narrow rim, wide shallow well, and convex boss in the centre.
The central medallion contains a woman half-length in profile to right, facing a scroll inscribed `LABINA' reserved in a blue ground, surrounded by a broad yellow circle. On the sides, formal plants alternate with coronets to which they are linked by scrolling foliage. On the rim is a border of paired laurel leaves between blue bands, the inner band decorated with rectangles and dots, and the outer with slanting lines to resemble a rope. The edge is yellow. The back is decorated with a thickly painted blue spiral in the centre, two widely spaced brownish-orange concentric circles, and a third next to the rim. Between them are narrow blue concentric circles, and, next to the rim, a wider blue circle.

Notes

History note: Alessandro Castellani; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 May 1878, Catalogue des faïences italiennes . . . et de deux pièces de la célèbre porcelaine des Medicis, composant l'importante collection de M. Alessandro Castellani, lot 17. Adalbert von Lanna; Berlin, Lepke, 21-28 March 1911, Sammlung des Freiherrn A. von Lanna, Part II, lot 578 & pl. 46. Durlacher Brothers, London, from whom purchased by F. Leverton Harris.

Legal notes

F. Leverton Harris Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1926) by Harris, Frederick Leverton

Dating

16th Century, Early
Renaissance
Circa 1500 - 1530

School or Style

Renaissance