Italian 16th Century (ceramist) Nicola da Urbino (ceramist) Italian, active 1520s - c. 1537/1538 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

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Potters in several Italian cities, including Urbino, Deruta, and Gubbio, specialized in brilliantly colored tin-glazed earthenware, a luxury ceramic often embellished with metallic luster glazes. Some depicted portraits or family crests, but many were decorated with elaborate narrative scenes from the Bible or ancient mythology. These wares are known as maiolica, probably because the techniques for making them entered Italy from Spain by way of Majorca.

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