Plate with border of foliate scrollwork; in the center, shield of arms of Vigerio of Savona
1524
Ceramist
Related Artist, Italian, c. 1465/1470 - c. 1553
Workshop of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli of Gubbio
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (diameter): 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1942.9.331
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Debruge-Duménil collection, Paris;[1] (Debruge-Dumenil sale, Paris, 23 January-9 February and 4-12 March 1850, no. 1143). Prince Petr Soltykoff [c. 1801-1889], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 April-1 May 1861, no. 680). (Roussel, Paris). John Edward Taylor, London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 1-4 and 9-10 July 1912, 3rd day, no. 250); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased November 1912 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] The Debruge-Duménil collection was formed by Louis-Fidel Debruge-Duménil, who died in 1838, leaving the collection to his son and a daughter who was married to Jules Labarte; the pottery was mostly sold in 1850; see Labarte, Jules, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil precedé d'une introduction historique, Paris, 1847: 12. The provenance given in the Taylor sale catalogue is "Seillière, Debruges, Soltykoff," but this is probably incorrect; no Seillière sale before 1847 is recorded by Lugt 1938-1964, and the piece does not appear in the Baron Achille Seillière estate sale in Paris, 5-10 May 1890.
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. 31, repro.
Bibliography
1847
Labarte, Jules. Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge Duménil precedé d'une introduction historique. Paris, 1847: no. 1143.
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 59.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 13, as Gubbio (Maestro Giorgio Andreoli).
1983
Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 119, no. 5.
1988
Fiocco/Gherardi 1988-1989, 2:570.
Hess 1988, 72.
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: 173-175, repro. 173.
2019
Vignon, Charlotte. Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880-1940. New York, 2019: 226, 276 n. 814.
Inscriptions
in center reverse: 1524 / .Mo.Go.
Wikidata ID
Q62131079