Plate with Hercules and the Hydra
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Details
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Title
Plate with Hercules and the Hydra
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Artist/maker
workshop of Guido Durantino ("Guido Fontana") (active 1535 - 1560) -
Associated place
Urbino (place of creation) -
Date
1535 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)
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Object type
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Dimensions
30.8 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Bequeathed by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1899.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1899.CDEF.C508
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica (Oxford/Phaidon, Christie's in association with the Ashmolean Museum, 1989), 15
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 163-165 no. 64
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