Plate with the arms of the Marganti family of Folgio
1540
Ceramist, Italian, active 16th century
Ceramist
Artwork overview
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Medium
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (height by diameter): 5.5 × 23.2 cm (2 3/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2014.136.320
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Geremia Delsette, Bologna, by 1844; purchased by Alexander Barker [c. 1797-1873], London.[1] Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin; by inheritance to his widow, Julie Hainauer [1850-1926], Berlin; purchased 1906 with the entire Hainauer collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 17 October 1906 to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[2] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] The early provenance is from Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, exh. cat., travelling exhibition organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, and Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts,1986-1989, London, 1986: 108. Delsette's collection was catalogued by _Luigi Frati, Di un'insigne raccolta di maioliche dipinte delle fabbriche di Pesaro e della provincia metaurense, Bologna, 1844: 25, 34, no. 166.
[2] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series I.D, General business records, 1907-1964, reel 59, box 163, Hainauer collection sales ledger, July 1906-December 1909; copy in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1897
Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 37, 113, no. 322 (M42).
1925
Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 259, no. 42.
1955
Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 75.
Inscriptions
on cartouche on right: 1540; center reverse: [unidentified emblem] / M42
Wikidata ID
Q62287871