[Sacrifice of Isaac (plate)] [realia].

Description

Title: [Sacrifice of Isaac (plate)] [realia].
Alternative Title: Plate painted with a scene with Abraham and Isaac
Creator: Grue, Carlo Antonio, 1655-1723, artist
Published / Created: [between 1690 and 1720?]
Publication Place: Castelli, Italy
Description: Hand-painted tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) palte, painted and gilt. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill.
Title devised by curator.
Castelli maiolica from the workshop of Carlantonio Grue. Formerly inventoried as Delft.
Label on verso: Walpole Collection Strawberry Hill Sale'; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”.
Text from 1774 edition of Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: 17 possibly [China Room]. Four dessert plates of fayence, with figures and boys round the borders; by Pietro da Cortona: very fine. A fifth ditto with goats, a present from Lady Diana Beauclerc.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A Pair of ditto (very rare plates), Adam and Eve and the sacrifice of Isaac.
Also available as a digital reproduction.
Provenance: Perhaps 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 12, lot 66, (one of two) bt Pratt, New Bond-street, £8.8.0. Apparently acquired by Sitwell in Chelsea in the 1930s. Gift of Sir Osbert Sitwell, July 1949 to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 item : diameter 19 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Plates (general, dishes)
Decorative object
Material: hand-painted ; and earthenware (maiolica) tin-glaze, gilt.
Resource Type: three-dimensional form
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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