About the Artwork
Vase
between 1550 and 1575
Orazio Fontana
1540-1571
Italian
Unknown
Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration
Overall: 21 × 11 1/2 × 9 inches (53.3 × 29.2 × 22.9 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler in memory of Mrs. William Clay
61.171
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(French and Co., New York, New York, USA)
1961-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance 1400- 1600. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1958, cat. no. 126.
Pryor, J. "A Gift of Maiolica Ware." Bulletin of the DIA 41, no. 1 (1961): pp. 13-16, detail p. 15 (ill.).
The Institute Collects. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1964, p. 18.
Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 24.
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Orazio Fontana, Vase, between 1550 and 1575, tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kanzler in memory of Mrs. William Clay, 61.171.
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