Dish / Artist Unknown, Italy

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Accession Number
1969/2.38
Title
Dish
Artist Nationality
Italian
Object Creation Date
1500-1525
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Italy (nation)
Umbria (region)
Perugia (province)
Deruta (inhabited place)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Italy (nation)
Creation Place 3
Umbria (region)
Creation Place 4
Perugia (province)
Creation Place 5
Deruta (inhabited place)
Style/Group/Movement
Renaissance
Inscription
There is a handwritten sticker on the bottom of this dish that reads as follows: W. Homer / 17.
Dimensions
5 cm x 32.8 cm x 32.8 cm (1 15/16 in. x 12 15/16 in. x 12 15/16 in.)
Century
16th century
Primary Object Classification
Ceramic
Primary Object Type
dish
Physical Description
This maiolica dish is covered by a radial pattern consisting of abstract leaves and curling tendrils punctuated with flowers all centered around a yellow disk in the center of the well. The harmony of the design stems from radial symmetry of the pattern as well as the restricted palette of blue and a soft brass-yellow.
Subject Matter
It is likely that this dish was produced in the Umbrian town of Deruta, the center of Italian pottery production during the sixteenth century. When this maiolica was produced, there were thirty or forty kilns in operation. Tin-glazed earthenware from Deruta in this period is remarkable for its conservative and consistent styles and shapes, owing perhaps to its geographic isolation. Products from Deruta also include tile-pavements, multi-colored drug jars decorated with complex floral and grotesque designs, and molded plates with relief patterns drawn from religious, historical, literary or mythological sources.
(A. Dixon, 15th-17th Century Gallery installation, early 1999)
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Record
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"Dish; Artist Unknown, Italy." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1969-sl-2.38/1969_2.38.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
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