[Death of Abel (plate)] [realia].

Description

Title: [Death of Abel (plate)] [realia].
Creator: Grue, Carlo Antonio, 1655-1723, artist
Published / Created: [between 1690 and 1720?]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), painted and gilt, with a scene showing the death of Abel. Formerly located in the China-Room at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title devised by curator.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A pair of very rare plates, on one is represented the Building of Babel, with many figures, on the other the Death of Abel.
Label on verso: Strawberry Hill; later dealer label “2575 Pair 2 gui”.
Also available as a digital reproduction.
Provenance: Possibly 1842, Strawberry Hill Sale, day 12, lot 61 bt W. M. Smith, £4.14.6 or day 12 lot 73 by Pratt, New Bond-street, £5.15.6; 1949, July, Given by Sir Osbert Sitwell to W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Extent: 1 item ; diameter 18.5 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Plates (general, dishes)
Decorative object
Material: 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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