Plate, between 1555 and 1575

  • Italian

Tin-glazed earthenware/italian maiolica with polychrome decoration

  • Overall: 2 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (5.4 × 23.5 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler in memory of Mrs. William Clay

61.166

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

L. Breitmeyer (London and Rushton Hall, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England)

July 10, 1930, Breitmeyer sale [24/6, 2, 3] lot 5

(French and Co., New York, New York, USA)

1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Collection of Old Italian, French and English Furniture, Objects of Art and Tapestry of the Late L. Breitmeyer, Esq. Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 24, July 2, 3, 10, 1930, no. 5. The Triumph of Humanism. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1977, p. 89, no. 178. Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 17.

Italian, Plate, between 1555 and 1575, tin-glazed earthenware/Italian maiolica with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler in memory of Mrs. William Clay, 61.166.