About This Artwork
Italy, Urbino or Castel Durante
Dish (coppa amatoria)c. 1530/45
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Diam. 24.5 cm (9 5/8 in.)
Inscription: IULIA BELLA
The Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.852
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. 54, no. 120.
Apollo 84, 55 (September, 1966), p. 179, plate 1.
Ownership History
Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815 - d. 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, see Molinier 1892, p. 54, no. 120; 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.