Large dish with plant-pattern border; in the center, the arms of a Medici pope

1513 or later - probably not after 1534

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G16

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 41.6 cm (16 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.319

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris;[1] 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; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] It is possible that this is the plate from the Castellani collection, described in the sale catalogue (Paris, 27-29 May 1878, no. 145) as 42 cm. in diameter and as having "au centre, large écusson portant les armes du pape Léon X et deux cornes d'abondance. Au marli palmettes et ornements varié. (Pesaro.);" however, the description of the border of the Castellani piece in Catalogue of the Castellani Collection in the Loan Exhibition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1877), no. 2, "Maiolica &c," no. 145, as "scale decoration and flowers" does not seem to correspond to the National Gallery piece.

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. 19.

Bibliography

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 55, 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.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 124, no. 3, as Deruta 1513/1534.

1989

  • Rasmussen Jörg. The Robert Lehman Collection, 10. Italian Majolica. New York and Princeton, 1989: 64.

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: 142-143, repro. 142.

Markings

Kann collection labels 31, 205

Wikidata ID

Q62131060

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