Plate
Category
Ceramics
Date
circa 1560
Materials
earthenware, tin-opacifed lead glaze, polychrome pigments
Measurements
310 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 540398
Summary
Dish, earthenware with tin-glaze (maiolica), possibly Maestro Domenico da Venezia, made in Venice, Italy, c. 1560; painted with a representation of the Holy Family, with the Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child about astride a recumbent lamb, indirectly after a panel painting of The Holy Family with a Lamb, by Raphael (1483-1520) dated 1507, now in the Prado Museum
Full description
See a comparable example in Johanna Lessmann, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig: Italienische Majolika (Brunswick, 1979), cat. no. 655. From the large collection formed in the mid-19th century by the antiquarian Reverend Thomas A. Berney (1815-1895), of Bracon Hall, Norfolk; by descent to Miss Berney, sold at Sotheby & Co., London, Catalogue of Fine Italian Majolica, 18 June 1946, lot 17 ‘An Urbino Dish, painted with the Holy Family, the Virgin holding the Infant Christ on a recumbent sheep, Joseph standing at her side, buildings and columns in the background, 12 ¼ in., mid-16th century, perhaps workshop of Orazio Fontana’. The lot purchased for 11 guineas (£11.11s.0d.) at the Berney sale by "Sir J Amory", Sir John Heathcoat-Amory (1894-1972), 3rd Bt., of Knightshayes Court; the house, part of the collection, the garden Sir John and Lady Heathcoat-Amory created, and part of the estate were bequeathed to the National Trust by Sir John Heathcoat-Amory in 1972. The maiolica was later given by Joyce, Lady Heathcoat-Amory (1901-1997), née Wethered, a celebrated golfer.
Provenance
From Lady Amory