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Basin with the arms of Spannocchi
Artist: Spanish
Location: Ashmolean Museum
Date: circa 1480-1500
Materials: tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions: Diameter: 48.1cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £8,000 (Total: £10,000)
Vendor: Roger Warner
Review number: 5436 (2004)
Provenance:
Stepney Galson family, Dirwydd Mansion, Wales probably by circa 1890; Roger Warner, 1967.
Description:
This deep dish has a central boss intended to support a ewer. It is moulded with relief ornament of crosses and radiating panels, and decorated in brilliant metallic lustre with an interlocking pattern of dense miniaturised leaf motifs. In the centre is a shield of arms, Piccolomini impaling Spannocchi (both of Siena). From the end of the 14th century, Italian merchants active in Valencia organised commissions for the rich merchant families of Tuscany.
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