Albarello with Ganymede and a shield of arms, c. 1500/1510

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Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by diameter): 24.1 × 13.1 cm (9 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.4046

Artists / Makers

Deruta 16th Century (ceramist)

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Inscription

on front on band: FILONIO PERSICO (Philonium persicum [polypharmaceutical preparation made from the fruit and/or blossoms of the peach tree]); below band, unidentified shield of arms: Azure, on a mount of three hillocks vert a leopard rampant or spotted azure holding in the fore-paws a carpenter's square argent; beneath foot: undeciphered scratched marks

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: 125, no. 532.

[2] See the Clark collection records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Gavet, Émile

Exhibition History

2007: Treasures of European Decorative Art and Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 August 2007 - 29 March 2009, no catalogue.

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: 125, no. 532.

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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 266, no. 114.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 62.

1986: Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 181, no. 98, repro.