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Description: | Artist: Della Robbia, Giovanni, workshop - Italian sculptor and ceramist, 1469-1529; Date(s): circa 1500 - 1520; Classification(s): tin-glazed earthenware, vase, moulding, Earthenware, moulded and tin-glazed on the exterior and the interior of the neck; the interior and base unglazed. Glaze colours: lavender-blue with traces of gilding; the posies are green, yellowish-green, yellow, brown, manganese-purple, white, and brownish-black.; Acquisition: bequeathed by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray, 1960, L.C.G. Clarke Bequest [C.92.2 & A-1961]
Description: Della Robbia vase with two dolphin handles decorated in blue glaze with traces of gilding. Into the mouth of the vase fits a posy of modelled flowers, fruit, vegetables, two frogs and a snail decorated naturalistically in coloured glazes. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | vase tin-glazed earthenware Della Robbia, Giovanni | Temporal: | name=15th century; start=1500; end=1520 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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