Animalistic Maiolica Ewer or Pitcher, ca. 1450

  • Italian

Tin-glazed earthenware with relief-blue (zaffera a rilievo), manganese, and green decoration

  • Overall: 12 1/8 × 8 3/8 × 9 5/8 inches (30.8 × 21.3 × 24.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

43.452

1932, Kurt Glogowski (London, England)

probably R. Stora (New York, New York, USA)

Mrs. Whitney Warren (New York, New York, USA)

October 1943, sold by (Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, New York, USA)

1943-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Cora, G. Storia della Maiolica di Firenze e del Contado: Secoli XIV e XV. Florence, 1973, no. 70b. Whitney Warren Sale. Sales cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. New York, October 1943, no. 464, p. 75. Cole, B. Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. 1977, no. 29, p. 67, (ill.) p. 66. Cole, B. "Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections." Apollo 107 (January 1978): pp. 38-43. Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanant Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1983. Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 7.

Italian, Animalistic Maiolica Ewer or Pitcher, ca. 1450, tin-glazed earthenware with relief-blue (zaffera a rilievo), manganese, and green decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 43.452.