Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

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ITALIAN CERAMICS ...

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Catherine Hess ITALIAN CERAMICS CATALOGUR OF THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM COLLECTION THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM LOS ANGELES ...

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CONTENTS Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Ceramic Production Centers x Introduction I Catalogue 18 Literature Cited 245 Profiles ...

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vii vii FOREWORD IN THE EARLY 1980s the Museum's holdings of Italian ceramics consisted primarily of wonderful ancient ex­ ample ...

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IN THE DOZEN YEARS since the Getty Museum's Italian Maiolica catalogue was published, a number of signifi­ cant ...

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CERAMIC PRODUCTION CENTERS ...

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INTRODUCTION There were no mortal men until, with the consent of the goddess Athene, Prometheus, son of Iapetus, formed them in ...

1 Style of the Centaur Painter. Detail of black-figure cup, ca. 540-30 B.C. Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum. The decoration on ...

3 Attributed to Jacopo della Pergola. Illuminated initial "M" from a manuscript (detail), mid-fifteenth century. London, Victori ...

were imported from Cornwall via Flanders, making them expensive^6 —for the front of a dish or the exterior of a pot, where the g ...

6 Vannoccio Biringuccio. Illustration from chapter 14, book 9, of De l pirotechnia (Venice, 1540). Los Angeles, Getty Research I ...

Especially in Tuscany one finds zaffeia a rilievo, or relief lue decoration (see nos. 4-5,7-9). The term zaffeia may ell relate ...

8 Plate with Soderini arms. Valencia (Manises), early fifteenth century. Tin-glazed earthenware, Diam: 20 cm (8 in.). London, Br ...