Bowl
Bowl
Place of OriginLombardy, Italy
Dateabout 1475-1490
Dimensions2 × 8 7/8 in. (5.1 × 22.5 cm)
MediumMaiolica with sgraffito decoration; Glaze: brown, green, and yellow
ClassificationCeramics
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1946.12
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 19
DescriptionConical bowl with molded rim, decorated in sgraffito with portrait head of young man.
Label TextFor sgraffito (“little scratch”) decoration the artist scratches through the glaze with a sharp tool to expose the darker clay beneath.Exhibition HistoryMetropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1937-1941.Comparative ReferencesSee also DeRicci, Catalog of Collection of Early Italian Majolica, formed by Mortimer L. Schiff, NY, 1927, No. 75; Catalog of Sale, No. 28.
about 1520-25
late 15th century
Sung Dynasty (960-1280 CE)
about 1700
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Koryo Dynasty (918-1392)
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