Plate with the Triumph of Bacchus, c. 1560/1570

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Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by diameter): 4.9 × 30.5 cm (1 15/16 × 12 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.4023

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (ceramist)

Domenico da Venezia (related artist) Venetian, active c. 1547 - 1570s

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Inscription

across center reverse: trionfo.dibacho- (the triumph of Bacchus); reverse, Hainauer catalogue number: M.72.

Provenance

Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin;[1] 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;[2] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The dish is labelled with a Hainauer catalogue number (M72), but this is one of a handful of entries missing in the catalogue, with no apparent explanation.

[2] 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

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018

Bibliography

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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 262, no. 72.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 107.

1986: Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 186, no. 118, repro.