Francesco Durantino
Italian, active 1543-1553

Wine Cistern, 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, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

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

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July11—September 20, 2009, no exhibition catalogue.

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.

Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, Catalogue of the British Museum oollection , vol. 2 (London, 2009), n. 247, pp.421-22.

Ownership History

Possibly acquired by Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753) in Italy in the early eighteenth century and passed to his heirs by descent [Scheidemantel, 1968, p. 52]. Andrew Fontaine (d. 1873), Narford Hall, Norfolk; by descent to heirs [according to C. Drury Fortnum, Maiolica (Oxford,1896), p. 77]; sold, London, Christie's, 1884, no. 389, to Galerie Stettiner, Paris, for £336 {according to annotated copy of sales catalogue in the British Museum, referenced by Scheidemantel, 1968, p. 58]. Baron Eugen Miller von Aichholz (b. 1835 - d. 1919), Palast Aichholz, Vienna, before 1900 (his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 18-22, 1900, no. 101). Fernand Adda (d. 1964), Alexandria and later Paris and Rome; his sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, November 29-December 3, 1965, no. 601; sold to Edward R. Lubin Gallery, New York [according to letter in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1966 [according to receipt in Registrar's files].