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Plate with Arms of the Vitelleschi Family
1527
maker
circle of Maestro Giorgio Andreoli
(Italian, 1465?–1553)
Diameter: 26.3 cm (10 3/8 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1950.155
Location: 118 Italian Renaissance
Did You Know?
Today, the Palazzo Vitelleschi, home of the Vitelleschi family in Tarquinia, a coastal town north of Rome, is an archaeological museum.Description
Italian nobles of the 1500s often expressed their wealth, social status, and sophistication by ordering large sets of maiolica that sometimes carried their coats of arms or even likenesses, usually in profile as in portraits of the period. Reserved for use at festival events such as a wedding or commissioned to mark a special occasion or an important visit, elaborately decorated utilitarian vessels in maiolica were prized as works of art by their owners and displayed as such in their residences.- Baron Max von Goldschmidt- Rothschild, Frankfurt-am-Main.
- Milliken, William M. "Three Majolica Plates by Maestro Giorgio." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 10 (1950): 210-15. Mentioned: P 212 25141673Milliken, William M. “Three Majolica Plates by Maestro Giorgio.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 10 (December 1950): 211–13. Mentioned: pp. 211-13 25141673
- No existing exhibition history
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1950.155