Dish with a mermaid holding mirror and trumpet
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Details
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Title
Dish with a mermaid holding mirror and trumpet
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Artist/maker
workshop of Giacomo da Pesaro (active c. 1506 - died 1546) (potter) -
Associated place
Venice (place of creation) -
Date
1540 -
Material and technique
earthenware, tin-glazed (maiolica)
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Object type
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Dimensions
37.2 cm (diameter) -
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.C492
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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), 25
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica and Europe: Medieval and Later Italian Pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, 1 (Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, 2017), pp. 75-76 no. 23
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