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Sections have been individually painted with oxides of copper (green) and iron or antimony (yellow-brown). \r\n\r\nIn the centre is the head and bust of a woman in profile. Her headdress is typical of the period with lengths of hair wound round a form, secured together with ribbon and held up by a light cord drawn round the forehead. She is positioned in front of a wattled hedge. The background is dotted and there are three rosetees. The dotted background was carefully executed with a rouletted wheel after the main image was incised.","physicalDescription":"Red earthenware, covered with a white slip and with incised decoration.painted in copper green and iron or antimony yellow-brown.. In the centre is the head and bust of woman in profile. She is positioned in front of a wattled hedge. The background is dotted and there are three rosetees. The hollow of the dish is fluted, decorated both inside and outside with a feather pattern. On both upper and lower sides of the rim is a border of  leaves on a continuous wavy stem. In the middle of the back is a seated unicorn, emblematic of chastity, again with a wattled hedge and two rosettes.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"earthenware","id":"x30295"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Earthenware covered with a white slip, decoration incised through the slip and painted with copper and iron or antimony oxides.","categories":[{"text":"Tableware & cutlery","id":"THES48888"},{"text":"Earthenware","id":"THES48964"}],"styles":[{"text":"Renaissance","id":"AAT21140"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2008BR9820","2017JU6160","2017KB8355"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"143 (VA)","id":"THES49867"},"free":"","case":"14","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dish","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Bologna","id":"x37061"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1480 to 1500","earliest":"1480-01-01","latest":"1500-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by George Salting, Esq.","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Weight","value":"1.27","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"5.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"33.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"W. B. Honey on Bologna ware: \r\nThe coloured lead glazes are limited, as a rule, to characteristic tones of more or less brownish yellow or amber colour and a strong leaf green, together with an uncoloured glaze of warm golden tone.\r\nWatttle fences and formal roses are also typical.\r\n\r\nHoney on 'gothic' foliage:\r\nThere are three types:\r\n1. a heart-shaped serrated leaf like a mulberry lead; generally on a serpentine stem and used as a border \r\n2. lobed-leaf which could be a stylised oak leaf\r\n3. serrated lancet-shaped leaf","briefDescription":"Dish of red earthenware covered with a white slip and with incised decoration painted in green and yellow-brown. Decoration of the head and bust of a woman in profile. Italian, probably Bologna, about 1480 to 1500","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Honey, W.B., 'Bologna Pottery of the Renaissance Period', The Burlington Magazine, vol.48, no.278 (May 1926), pp.224-235"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Rackham, Bernard, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1940"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Reggi, G.L., Commune di Ferrara. Ceramica nelle civiche collezioni, catalogo della mostra, Ferrara, 1972"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"G. Ericani & P. Narubu, La ceramica nel Veneto. La Terrafirma dal XIII al XVIII secolo, Verona, 1990"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"woman's head","id":"x39474"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"20 Dish with profile of woman \r\nItaly, probably Bologna, 1480-1500\r\n\r\nThe potter allowed the underglaze pigments to run in the glaze. The dotted backgrounds on nos. 20-1 were executed with a roulette (see no. 14).\r\n\r\nMuseum no. C.2283-1910. 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