Plate with Narcissus, Cupid, and Echo Transformed

c. 1530

Francesco Xanto Avelli (Italian, active about 1525-1542)

Status: On View, Gallery 238
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Artist: Francesco Xanto Avelli
Title: Plate with Narcissus, Cupid, and Echo Transformed
Place: Urbino (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.: 1525–1535
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Inscriptions: On reverse: P. Narcis' Ecco trasforma_saxo_fabulo
Dimensions: Diam.: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.848
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Greta Kaucher, Le peintre du Marsyas de Milan. La majolique historiée à Urbino en 1530 (Paris: Feu et Talent, 2024), 74, 317, no. VI.
Émile Molinier, La collection Spitzer, vol. 4: Les faiences italiennes, hispano-moresques et orientales (Paris: 1892), 33, no. 49.
Joan Prentice von Erdberg and Marvin C. Ross, Catalogue of the Italian Majolica in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore: 1952), 25, no. 50.
Jörg Rasmussen, The Robert Lehman Collection. vol. 10, Italian Majolica (New York: 1989), 131, no. 76.
Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (Milan: 1996), 188, 190.

Frédéric Spitzer (died 1890), Paris; his sale, Paris, Chevallier and Mannheim, April 17 - June 16, 1893, see Molinier 1892, p. 33, no. 49; acquired by Durand-Ruel as agent for Martin A. Ryerson [according to copy of receipt in curatorial file]; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago (d. 1932); by descent to his widow (d. 1937); bequeathed to the museum, 1937.

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