Émile Gavet

French, 1830 - 1904

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Plate with Saint Lucy and grotesques

Tuscan 16th Century · second quarter 16th century · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4047

An armored knight and the rectangular trough he lies next to are both on a slightly larger pedestal base in this freestanding, vibrantly colored maiolica inkstand. The earthenware object was covered with tin-oxide glaze, which, when fired, results in royal blue, grass green, pale orange, and brown hues. The knight’s skin is the white of the earthenware, and his armor is blue and orange. He lies down, using his helmet as a pillow to our left. Both knees are bent, and his hands are by his sides. A staff or lance lies at his feet to our right. The base has a coat of arms on the center front, and two animals, perhaps deer, lie to either side. The base is outlined in green or blue, and it rests on four brown, paw-shaped feet.
Faenza 15th Century, Faenza 16th Century, Inkstand with sleeping knight, late 15th/early 16th century, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.19.4045

Inkstand with sleeping knight

Faenza 15th Century, Faenza 16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4045

Anonymous Artist, Saint John the Baptist, 1400/1899, terracotta, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1943.4.83

Saint John the Baptist

Anonymous Artist · 1400/1899 · terracotta ·  Accession ID  1943.4.83

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Spouted jar with bust of a woman

Deruta 16th Century · possibly early 16th century · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4096

Deruta 16th Century, Votive plaque, 1505, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.331

Votive plaque

Deruta 16th Century · 1505 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2014.136.331

Neapolitan 15th Century, Albarello with a portrait of a youth (Mitriano), c. 1480, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.19.4039

Albarello with a portrait of a youth (Mitriano)

Neapolitan 15th Century · c. 1480 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4039

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Plate with floral and geometric motifs

Faenza 15th/16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4097

Faenza 15th Century, Faenza 16th Century, Plate with clasped hands, late 15th/early 16th century, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.19.4043

Plate with clasped hands

Faenza 15th Century, Faenza 16th Century · late 15th/early 16th century · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4043

Faenza 16th Century, Albarello with blindfolded, bound Cupid, c. 1500/1510, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.332

Albarello with blindfolded, bound Cupid

Faenza 16th Century · c. 1500/1510 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2014.136.332

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Plate with shield of arms and ornamental patterns

Sienese 16th Century · c. 1510/1520 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4041

Bibliography

1878

  • Darcel, Alfred. "Le moyen âge et la Renaissance au Trocadéro, XIV. Les faïences italiennes." Gazette des beaux-arts. 2nd. ser., 18 (1878): 977.

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.

1894

  • Molinier, Émile. Collection Émile Gavet, catalogue raisonné précédé d'une historique et archéologique sur les oeuvres d'art qui compose cette collection. Paris, 1894.

1897

  • Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute curiosité de la renaissance: tableaux, tapisseries composant la collection de M. Émile Gavet.... Auction cat. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, (31 May-9 June) 1897.

2009

  • Chong, Alan. "Émile Gavet: Patron, Collector, Dealer." In Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Renaissance Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling Collection, edited by Virginia Brilliant, exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Preservation Society of Newport County, 2009-2010, Sarasota and Pittsburgh, 2009: