Plate with border of putti and trophies amid grotesques; in the center, a winged putto standing, armed, in a landscape

c. 1510/1520

Urbino district 16th Century

Ceramist, Italian, 16th century

Venetian 16th Century

Ceramist

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G10

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 23.2 cm (9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.313

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris; (his estate sale, at his residence by Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, no. 1046, sold for 11,000 francs). Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] Widener collection records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

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. 24, repro.

Bibliography

1892

  • Molinier 1892, no. 8 bis, pl. 5, as Cafaggiolo.

1929

  • Rackham, Bernard. "Die Majolikamaler Giovanni Maria von Castel Durante, part 2." Pantheon 3 (1929): 90, as painted by Giovanni Maria.

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 33, as by Cafaggiolo, c. 1510.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 12, as Caffagiolo, about 1510.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 117, no. 4, as Castel Durante, c. 1520.

1988

  • Hess 1988, 94.

1989

  • Rasmussen Jörg. The Robert Lehman Collection, 10. Italian Majolica. New York and Princeton, 1989: 110.

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: 130-133, color repro. 131.

Markings

Labels (now in object folder, NGA Curatorial Records): oval red-bordered label with "28" in pen; square label with "page 323 No 23b" (compare with 1942.9.341); Kann collection labels 4, 201

Wikidata ID

Q62131049

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