Plate with shield of arms of the Saracinelli, c. 1525/1530

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Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by diameter): 4 × 24.3 cm (1 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.4003

Artists / Makers

Gubbio 16th Century (ceramist)

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Inscription

center, Saracinelli shield of arms: Party per fess: in chief, azure, a crescent argent, in base, argent, a moor's head sable; over the division a fess vert; center reverse, within an emblem: S

Provenance

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

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hainauer, Julie
Hainauer, Oskar

Exhibition History

1978: The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 58.

2004: Marvels of Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids; Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 9 April 2004 - 18 June 2006, no. 13.

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: 113, no. 321 (M41).

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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 259, no. 41.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 66.

1986: Watson, Wend, M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues).London and Washington, 1986: 94-95, no. 36, repro.