Jar

Place of OriginItaly - Deruta

Datelate 15th century

Dimensions8 3/4 × 3 3/4 × 4 in. (22.2 × 9.5 × 10.2 cm)

MediumTin-glazed earthenware, known as maiolica

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1946.11

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 19

DescriptionThree-handled globular body, with three bust-length portraits within laurel wreaths. Grayish white ground decorated in light and dark cobalt, pale green, ochre and aubergine

Exhibition HistoryMetropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1917-1919 and 1937-1941.Comparative ReferencesSee also E. Molinier, Catalog of the collection of Charles Mannheim, 1898, No. 43; See also Bernard Rackham, Burlington Magazine, XXVII, 1915, pp. 50-51, pl. III.N; See also DeRicci Catalog of Collection of Early Italian Majolica formed by Mortimer L. Schiff, Ny, 1927, No. 55; Catalog of Sale, No. 13.