About the Artwork
Plate
between 1555 and 1575
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Italian
Italian
Tin-glazed earthenware/italian maiolica with polychrome decoration
Overall: 2 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (5.4 × 23.5 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler in memory of Mrs. William Clay
61.166
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Marks, on underside, in black: [circle with a line] Marks, on underside, on label: 43148/7A Marks, on underside, in red: 61.166
Provenance
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)
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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.
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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.
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