EditorialDesigns for Silver Serving Pieces, Pietro Belli, Italian, 17801828, Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, graphite, ruled borders in pen and black ink on white laid paper, Horizontal rectangle. Designs for silver serving pieces decorated with female m...
EditorialDish (piatto); The story of Hercules: the gods called upon Hercules to help them defend Olympus against the attack of the Giants, sons of Uranus and Gaea (Heaven and Earth), Italian, Deruta, ca. 1510, Italian, Deruta, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware),...
EditorialPlate (piatto): The story of Aeneas, 1532, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Diameter: 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (Italian, Rovigo ca7?1542), This splendid plate formed part of one of the largest majolica ...
EditorialLarge plate (grande piatto): An episode from the Sack of Rome, 1527: the assault on the Borgo (?), ca. 1540, Italian, Urbino, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Diameter: 17 3/8 in. (44.2 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, workshop of Guido Durantino (Italian, Urb...
EditorialDish (piatto); The story of Hercules: Hercules lifts the giant Antaeus clear of the Earth, his mother, from whom he derived his phenomenal strength, ca. 1490?1500, Italian, Deruta, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Diameter: 17 in. (43.2cm), Ceramics-...
EditorialDish (piatto): Man Washing the Mouth of an Ass, ca. 1550?60, Italian, Deruta, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Diam. 15 13/16 in. (40.2 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Maiolica is the term given to the refined, white-glazed pottery of the Italian Renaissance....