Plate
Category
Ceramics
Date
1575 - 1600
Materials
earthenware, tin-opacified lead glaze, polychrome pigments
Measurements
260 mm (Dia)
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1145574
Summary
Plate (tondino), tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), small bowl with broad flat rim ('of cardinal's hat form'), probably made in the Patanazzi workshop, Urbino, Italy, 1575-1600; decorated in colours and painted with an istoriato scene from the Old Testament, the Book of Ruth, Chapter II; a bearded well dressed man leans against a tree on the left side of the image, possibly Boaz, and in the centre is a older man in a black hat seated in a field of wheat, holding a sickle, they discover Ruth gleaning grain in their fields, several other men are involved in the harvest, blue and ochre bands at the rim; inscribed on the underside 'RUTH ^ II ^'
Full description
A similar plate with the same composition, and probably executed at the same workshop by the same artist is in the National Museum, Stockholm, once owned by Queen Christina in the seventeenth century and in the Ulriksdal Palace, by the mid-eighteenth century, was published by Guy de Tervarent, as noted in J.V.G. Mallet, 'Pottery and Porcelain at Erddig', Apollo, July 1978, pp.40-45; and the plate was also noted by Louisa Matilda Yorke, Facts and Fancies: A Description of Erthig, Denbighshire, 1920s, p. 14. The plate is listed in the 1914 inventory of the China and Pottery at Erthig (Erddig): 'One soup-plate representing Ruth and Boaz also 4 figures, cornfields, etc... Labelled "Ruth" at back'.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.
Marks and inscriptions
On the base: Ruth ^ II ^