Dish
Patanazzi
Category
Ceramics
Date
1580 - 1600
Materials
earthenware, tin-opacified lead glaze, polychrome pigments
Measurements
287 mm (Depth)
Place of origin
Urbino
Order this imageCollection
Knightshayes Court, Devon
NT 540391
Summary
Dish, earthenware with tin-glaze (maiolica), possibly Patanazzi Workshops, Urbino, Italy, late 16th century; painted with a Biblical scene from the Old Testament, the story of Ruth: Boaz discovering Ruth in the wheat fields; the underside inscribed with the literary source, ‘RUTH II’.
Full description
Two similar dishes are recorded, one is at Erddig, Wrexham, in Wales (NT 1145574), see J.V.G. Mallet, ‘Pottery and Porcelain at Erdigg’, Apollo, July 1978, p. 43 & fig., 7.; and for another dish in Stockholm, see Helena Dahlbäck Lutteman, Majolika från Urbino och andra orter I Italien I Nationalmuseum Stockholm (Stockholm, 1981), No. 98.The source of the scene is a woodcut in an illustrated Lyon Bible (Claude Paradin, Quadrins Historiques de la Bible, Lyon: J. de Tournes, 1558, 8°, third edition) with woodcut illustrations after Bernard Salomon.
Provenance
From Lady Amory
Marks and inscriptions
on the reverse 'RUTH 11' ie among the alien corn gleaning in the fields of Boaz
Makers and roles
Patanazzi, potter