About This Artwork

Italian, Urbino
Fontana Workshops

Plate with Story of Numa Pompilius and Arms of Gonzaga, c. 1560

Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Diam. 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.)
On reverse: De Numa Pompilio
The Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.850

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Renaissance Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, March 2 – June 14, 1987.

Publication History

J. V. G. Mallet, "Mantua and Urbino, Gonzaga Patronage of Maiolica," Apollo 113 (September, 1981), pp. 168-169, figs. 7 and 8.

Ownership History

Octave du Sartel (b. 1823 - d. by 1894), Paris; sold, Paris, Hotel Drouot, June 4-9, 1894, no. 371, to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932) [according to annotated copy of sales catalogue in curatorial file]; by descent to his widow (d. 1937); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1937.