National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Large dish with border of floral scrollwork and cornucopias; in the center, profile bust of "Faustina"
  • Inscription
  • Marks and Labels
  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

No overview.

Inscription

on scroll in front of the woman's face: F / AUSTI / NA.PULIT / A.EB / ELLA; on tablets in the border: TIMOR / DOMIN/I

Marks and Labels

Kann collection label 13 (now in object folder, NGA Curatorial Records)

Provenance

Alessandro Castellani, Rome (sale, Paris, 27-29 May 1878, no. 169). Maurice Kann, Paris; (Duveen Brothers), 1908, as part of the Kann collection; purchased February 1910 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.

Exhibition History

1877
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1877.
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. 14, color repro. on cover.
1999
The Moon & the Stars: Afterlife of a Roman Empress, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1999, no. 13, repro.
2001
Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, not in cat.
2004
La Ceramica Umbra al Tempo di Perugino [Ceramics in Umbria in the time of Perugino], Museo Regionale della Ceramica di Deruta, 2004, no. 21, repro.

Bibliography

1877
Beckwith, Arthur. Majolica and Fayence. New York, 1877: 88-89, fig. 32, as Pesaro or Gubbio.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 56, as Deruta, c. 1520.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 12, as Deruta, about 1520.
1982
NGA 1982-1983, no. 14, color repro. on cover.
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 124-125, no. 2, repro., as Deruta, first third of sixteenth century.
1989
Rasmussen 1989, 60.
1993
Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 150-152, color repro. 151.

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