Plate with the Calumny of Apelles
On display
Details
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Title
Plate with the Calumny of Apelles
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Artist/maker
Nicola da Urbino (1480 - 1538) -
Associated place
Urbino (place of creation) -
Date
1522 - 1523 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica); bianco sopra bianco, painted in blue, green, yellow, brown, orange, purple-black and white
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.9 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1896.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 35 | West meets East -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1896.CDEF.C474
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Fortnum, C.D.E., A Descriptive Catalogue of the Maiolica in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford/Ashmolean, 1897), p. 72, pl. XIV
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica (Oxford/Phaidon, Christie's in association with the Ashmolean Museum, 1989), 10
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 133-135 no. 54
