Bust of the young St John the Baptist
On display
Details
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Title
Bust of the young St John the Baptist
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Associated place
Tuscany (place of creation) -
Date
1490 - 1520
c. 1500-c.1550 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 cm (height)
28 cm (width)
14 cm (depth)
31.5 cm with base (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1888.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1888.CDEF.C408
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Warren, Jeremy, Vol 2 Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum Publications, 2014), pp. 434 - 438 no. 117
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 370-371 no. 192
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