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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

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

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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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