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Plate with female head and border with trophies
Probably by: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (Italian, born in 1465–70, died in 1555)
Italian (Gubbio)
dated 1524
Object Place: Europe, Gubbio, Italy
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with metallic luster decoration
Dimensions
Diameter: 8 in., height: 1 1/2 in.
Credit Line
Anita M. Linzee Fund
Accession Number46.460
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionRuby and yellow lustre. Portrait of woman in center on cobalt ground, yellow lustre band, wide rim with military trophies, etc. Reverse has yellow lustre scroll and medallion design on cream ground.
ProvenanceBy 1913, Mortimer L. Schiff (b. 1877 - d. 1931), New York [see note 1]; May 4, 1946, posthumous Schiff sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 98, to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York; sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to the MFA for $1800. (Accession Date: June 13, 1946)
NOTES:
[1] He lent the plate to the "Exposition d'Objets d'Art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance" (Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1913), cat. no. 169.
NOTES:
[1] He lent the plate to the "Exposition d'Objets d'Art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance" (Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1913), cat. no. 169.