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image of Plate with Venus in her chariot and Cupid, riding through a night sky
Attributed to Nicola da Urbino or a close associate; probably lustered in the Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio
Nicola da Urbino (ceramist)
Italian, active 1520s - c. 1537/1538
Italian 16th Century (ceramist)
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio (related artist)
Italian, c. 1465/1470 - c. 1553
Plate with Venus in her chariot and Cupid, riding through a night sky, c. 1530/1535
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
overall (diameter): 25.8 cm (10 3/16 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.336
On View
From the Tour: Italian Cabinet Galleries
Object 2 of 6

Exhibition History

1982
Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 46.
2004
La Ceramica Umbra al Tempo di Perugino [Ceramics in Umbria in the time of Perugino], Museo Regionale della Ceramica di Deruta, 2004, no. 75, repro.

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