About This Artwork
Display Plate with Female Bust1500/1530
Tin-glazed earthenware with copper luster
D. 40.6 cm (16 in.)
Inscription on scroll: A SAE AVAZA CHI FVRTVNA PASA (He advances much who passes Fortune)
The Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.841
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris, 1892), p. 69, no. 180.
Ownership History
Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815 - d. 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, See Molinier 1892, p. 69, no. 180; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; by descent to his widow; bequeathed to the museum.