About This Artwork

Italian, Pesaro

Storage Jar, c. 1470/90

Tin-glazed earthenware
Diameter: 7 5/8 in. Height: 10 3/4 in.
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1944.703

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Meyric R. Rogers and Oswald Goetz, Handbook to the Lucy Maud Buckingham Medieval Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1945), p. 73, no. 66.

Ownership History

Said to be made for Giovanni II Bentivoglio (1443-1509), Bologna [according to unverifiable account in letter from Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc, dated December 8, 1944 in curatorial file]; Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New York, by 1944 [according to record of receipt in Registrar's files]; sold to the museum, 1944.