Jug (Boccale), ca. 1460 - 1500

  • Italian

Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration

  • Overall: 7 1/2 × 4 7/8 × 4 5/16 inches (19.1 × 12.4 × 10.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

23.124

(Antiquitätengeschäfts A. Satori, Vienna, Austria)

1923-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bode, Wilhelm. "Primitive Italian Majolicas in the Detroit Museum," Art in America 12, no. 6 (October 1924): pp. 238-244, p. 238, pl. 1.3 (ill.). Cole, B. Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections. 1977, no. 21. Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 52.

Italian, Jug (Boccale), ca. 1460 - 1500, tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 23.124.