Francesco Durantino
Italian, active 1543-1553

Wine Cooler, 1553

Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
53.3 x 26.7 cm (21 x 10 1/2 in.)
Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment, 1966.395

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

Albert Jacquemart, History of the Ceramic Art (London, 1877), p. 294.

C. Drury Fortnum, Maiolica (New York, 1877), p. 151.

William Chaffers, Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain (London, 1886), pp. 84, 87.

C. Drury Fortnum, Maiolica, A Historical Treatise (Oxford, 1896), p. 235.

M. L. Solon, Italian Maiolica (London, 1907), p. 104.

Emil Hannover, Pottery and Porcelain, vol. 1 (New York, 1925), p. 130.

Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, Victoria and Albert Museum, vol. 1 (London, 1940), p. 284.

Joseph Chompret, Majolique Italienne, vol. 1 (Paris, 1949), p. 150.

Giuseppe Liverani, Five Centuries of Italian Majolica (New York, 1960), p. 49.

Vivian J. Scheidemantel, “An Italian Majolica Wine Cooler,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 3 (1968), pp. 42-62 (ills.).

John Fleming and Hugh Honour, Dictionary of the Decorative Arts (New York, 1977), p. 305, and dust jacket image.

Rudolf Distelberger, et al, The Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics (Washington, 1993), pp. 223-24.

Ownership History

Andrew Fontaine, Narford Hall, Norfolk [sold, London, Christie's, 1884, no. 389]. [Edward R. Lubin Gallery, New York, by 1965]; sold to the museum in 1966.