Plate
Bernard Salomon (1506-1561)
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Majolica
Measurements
305 mm (Dia)
Place of origin
Urbino
Order this imageCollection
Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1145575.1
Summary
Plate. One of two Urbino istoriato circular majolica plates; (i) painted in colours with the goddess Latona turning the Lycian peasants into frogs. Goddess on the right carrying an infant and attended by another; peasant/frog in the river in the centre; two figures/frogs on the left. After a print by Bernard Salomon, 1557. Marked on the base: 'la dea la tona', Ovid.
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: < la dea la tona >
Makers and roles
Bernard Salomon (1506-1561) , artist