Plate with Story of Numa Pompilius and Arms of Gonzaga

c. 1560

Fontana Workshops
Italian; Urbino

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

Artist: Urbino Potteries
Title: Plate with Story of Numa Pompilius and Arms of Gonzaga
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.: 1555–1565
Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Inscriptions: On reverse: De Numa Pompilio
Dimensions: Diam.: 25.1 cm (9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.850
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J. V. G. Mallet, “Mantua and Urbino, Gonzaga Patronage of Maiolica,” Apollo 113 (September, 1981), pp. 168-169, figs. 7 and 8.

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

Octave du Sartel (b. 1823 - d. by 1894), Paris; sold, Paris, Hotel Drouot, June 4-9, 1894, no. 371, to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932) [according to annotated copy of sales catalogue in curatorial file]; by descent to his widow (d. 1937); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1937.

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