Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1575 - 1600
Materials
earthenware, tin-opacified lead glaze, polychrome pigments
Measurements
305 mm (Dia)
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1145575.2
Summary
Dish, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), shallow bowl with rounded rim, made in Urbino, Italy, 1575-1600; decorated in colours and painted with an istoriato scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, of Galatea, a sea-nymph, riding in a shell-shaped boat drawn by dolphins and surrounded by dolphins while attended by three putti holding either a bow, arrow or trumpet, a mountainous landscape in the distance with a village, blue and ochre line borders at the rim.
Full description
The group of four maiolica dishes are discussed in J.V.G. Mallet, 'Pottery and Porcelain at Erddig', Apollo, July 1978, pp.40-45; and Louisa Matilda Yorke, Facts and Fancies: A Description of Erthig, Denbighshire, 1920s, p. 14. This dish and another are listed in the 1914 inventory of the China and Pottery at Erthig (Erddig): 'Two deep round Dishes. One representing Venus in a shell on the Sea and three Cupids, etc. The other representing Jupiter, Juno and Cupids etc. This dish has a piece missing'.
Provenance
Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.