Fluted bowl with a naked figure on a horse
Maker
Title
Fluted bowl with a naked figure on a horse
Date of Production
circa 1550 - 1570
Medium
tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions
Diameter: 30 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Accession Number
O.1966.GP.143
Mode of Acquisition
Gambier Parry, bequest, 1966
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Notes
With regard to the attribution of the present piece, a similar fluted bowl with St Jerome in the centre, also with sixteen spiral flutings, and perhaps taken from the same mould, bears the monogram VR AF, the mark of the potter Virgiliotto Calamelli (active 1531-70). It has been suggested that the present bowl is likely to have been made in his workshop in Faenza. Virgiliotto, who worked in the San Vitale area of the city, was the most successful and important potter in Faenza in the middle of the sixteenth century.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Thomas Gambier Parry after 1875
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