Sienese 16th Century (ceramist) Plate with border of grotesques on an orange ground; in the center, Narcissus gazing at his reflection in a fountain, c. 1510/1520 tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) overall (diameter): 26.1 cm (10 1/4 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.315

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Exhibition History

1862

Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and More Recent Periods on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, South Kensington Museum, London, 1862, no. 5164, repro. Rev. ed. 1863.

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. 6, repro.

1994

Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, brochure, no. 43, as Plate with border of grotesques.

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