Creamware figure of Pope Pius VI on horseback
Details
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Title
Creamware figure of Pope Pius VI on horseback
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Artist/maker
probably Antonio and Lorenzo Cialli workshop (active c. .1783 – 1784) -
Associated place
Rome (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1783 - 1784
c. 1785
late 18th century -
Material and technique
earthenware; Tin-glazed (Maiolica)
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Object type
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Dimensions
45 cm (height)
29.5 cm (width)
13.3 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1965.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1965.72
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Glossary of terms
earthenware
Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 108
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 376-377 no. 197
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