About This Artwork
Italian, Urbino
Attributed to the workshop of Guido di Merlino, active c. 1523-1558
Plate with Isaac Blessing Jacobc. 1540
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Diam. 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
On reverse: benedicione de jacob
The Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.851
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
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
Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris, 1892), p. 35, no. 55.
Ownership History
Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815 - d. 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, see Molinier 1892, p. 35, no. 55; 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 (d. 1937); bequeathed to the museum.