Plate, perhaps The Companions of Proserpina
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Details
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Title
Plate, perhaps The Companions of Proserpina
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Artist/maker
Nicola da Urbino (1480 - 1538) -
Associated place
Urbino (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1525 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica), polychrome, bianco sopra bianco
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Object type
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Dimensions
30.6 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assitance of the Art Fund, the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, France Fund, and the Friends of the Ashmolean, 1993.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1993.12
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 122 on p. 117, illus. p. 117 fig. 122
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 136-137 no. 55
