17E Attributed to Andrea Sansovino (Italian, ca. 1467-1529). Bust of Chrisi
1502-5. Tin-glazed earthenware. Arezzo, Ivan Bruschi collection.
17 F Single-handled albarello. Siena or Cafaggiolo, 1500-1525. Tin-glazed
earthenware, H: 21.9 cm [8^5 A in.). Faenza, Museo Internazionale delle
Ceramiche, inv. 24885—Donazione A. Fanfani, 1989.
sixteenth century.^8 It is known, for example, that pot
ters from Montelupo were active in Pistoia in the 1580s,
creating figures, many in very high relief, for the della
Robbia frieze on the Ospedale del Ceppo (fig. 17G).^9
Moreover, a document of 1527 confirms the association
of Florentine ceramic sculptors with Montelupo potters
when clay from the quarry serving Montelupo was sent
to Giovanni d'Andrea della Robbia and Santi Buglioni,
the most famous ceramic sculptors active in Florence at
the time.^10 More research will be required to understand
the production of Montelupo ceramic sculptures better.
Further substantiating attribution of this bust to a
Montelupo artist is the fact that the very unusual use of
gilding around the base of the bust is actually not that
unusual in Montelupo. The sculptural handles on a se
ries of jars made in Montelupo and dating to the turn of
the seventeenth century are similarly gilded.^11102 Bust of Christ