Dish / Artist Unknown, Italy
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1969/2.38
- Title
- Dish
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Italy
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Medium and Support
- tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) with underglaze painting
- 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)
- Credit Line
- The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
- 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)
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- design elements
- earthenware
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- italy (nation)
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- perugia (province)
- pottery (object genre)
- scrollwork
- umbria (region)
- vessels for serving and consuming food
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 889 x 871
- File Size
- 100 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.38
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