About This Artwork
Italian, Urbino
Attributed to Milan Marsyas Painter
Salt Cellarc. 1530
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
6.2 x 17.8 cm (2 7/8 x 7 in.)
D. 16.5 cm (6 1/2 in.)
Elizabeth R. Vaughn Fund, 1964.140
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (Milan, 1996), p. 191 (with possible attribution to Milan Marsyas Painter).
Julia Catherine Triolo, The Armorial Maiolica of Francesco Xanto Avelli (Ph.D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), p. 278.
Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, Catalogue of the British Museum oollection vol 1 (London, 2009), n. 162, pp. 274-75.
Ownership History
Member of the Buoncristiani Family or Strozzi Family, Florence, ca. 1530 [identification based on coat of amrs: see Timothy Wilson, 1996, p. 191]. Edward R. Lubin, Inc, New York, by 1964[according to note in curatorial file]; purchased by the museum [according to receipt in Registrar's file].