Plate with an allegorical scene of a woman and a putto
c. 1527/1530
Ceramist, Italian (Rovigo), active in Urbino, c. 1486/1487 - after 1542
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): 3.2 × 19.8 cm (1 1/4 × 7 13/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.3995
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alessandro Castellani [1823-1883], Rome; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27-29 May 1878, 2nd day, no. 283). 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;[1] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] 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
Exhibition History
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018
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: 111.
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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 257, no. 29.
1955
Von Erdberg, Joan Prentice. "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art." The Burlington Magazine 97, no. 624 (March 1955): 73.
Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 77.
1986
Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 128-129, no. 50, repro.
Inscriptions
across center reverse: mech, moch. / leggi [flourish]