Plate with clasped hands
late 15th/early 16th century
Ceramist, Central Italian
Ceramist, Central Italian
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 × 23.6 cm (1 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.4043
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Émile Gavet [1830-1904], Paris;[1] purchased by 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] Émile Molinier, Collection Émile Gavet, catalogue raisonné précédé d'une historique et archéologique sur les oeuvres d'art qui compose cette collection, Paris, 1889: 104, no. 441, pl. LIIter .
[2] See the Clark collection records in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1986
Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley; The Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; The Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Saint Louis Art Museum; Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Dayton Art Institute; University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986-1989, no. 6, repro.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018
Bibliography
1889
Molinier, Émile. Collection Émile Gavet, catalogue raisonné précédé d'une historique et archéologique sur les oeuvres d'art qui compose cette collection. Paris, 1889: 104, no. 441, pl. LIIter.
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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 265, no. 104.
1955
Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 15.
Inscriptions
on banderole: MA / FIΔ