Display Plate with Female Bust

Applied Arts of Europe

1500/1530

Italian, Deruta

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Societa anonima cooperativa per la fabbricazione delle maioliche (Deruta, Italy)
Title: Display Plate with Female Bust
Place: Deruta (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1515–1525
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware with copper luster
Inscriptions: Inscription on scroll: A SAE AVAZA CHI FVRTVNA PASA (He advances much who passes Fortune)
Dimensions: Diameter: 40.6 cm (16 in.), H: 8.9 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.841
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Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris, 1892), p. 69, no. 180.

Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815 - d. 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, See Molinier 1892, p. 69, no. 180; 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.

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