Large dish with border of floral scrollwork and cornucopias; in the center, profile bust of "Faustina"

c. 1510/1535

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (diameter): 41.2 cm (16 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.322

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alessandro Castellani [1823-1883], Rome; (his sale, Paris, 27-29 May 1878, no. 169). Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A. B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; inheritance from the Estate of Peter A. B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1877

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1877.

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. 14, color repro. on cover.

1999

  • The Moon & the Stars: Afterlife of a Roman Empress, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1999, no. 13, repro.

2001

  • Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2001-2002, not in cat.

2004

  • La Ceramica Umbra al Tempo di Perugino [Ceramics in Umbria in the time of Perugino], Museo Regionale della Ceramica di Deruta, 2004, no. 21, repro.

Bibliography

1877

  • Beckwith, Arthur. Majolica and Fayence. New York, 1877: 88-89, fig. 32, as Pesaro or Gubbio.

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 56, as Deruta, c. 1520.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 12, as Deruta, about 1520.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 124-125, no. 2, repro., as Deruta, first third of sixteenth century.

1989

  • Rasmussen Jörg. The Robert Lehman Collection, 10. Italian Majolica. New York and Princeton, 1989: 60.

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: 150-152, color repro. 151.

Inscriptions

on scroll in front of the woman's face: F / AUSTI / NA.PULIT / A.EB / ELLA; on tablets in the border: TIMOR / DOMIN/I

Markings

Kann collection label 13 (now in object folder, NGA Curatorial Records)

Wikidata ID

Q62131064

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