Plate with the Triumph of Bacchus
c. 1560/1570
Ceramist
Artwork overview
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Medium
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (height by diameter): 4.9 × 30.5 cm (1 15/16 × 12 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.4023
Artwork history & notes
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
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 Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 262, no. 72.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.
Inscriptions
across center reverse: trionfo.dibacho- (the triumph of Bacchus); reverse, Hainauer catalogue number: M.72.