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

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

32A Alternate view.


dated to the second half of the sixteenth century.^7 An­


other comparable jug, slightly taller than the Getty


example but of similar shape and with very similar lau­


rel wreath encircling a decorative medallion, is in the


Victoria and Albert Museum, London.^8


32B Altenate view.

Notes
1. Duveen 1876-1981, no. M.M. 15 (29054), box 193, where the price is
listed as $1,250.


  1. A similar figure of a musician, also wearing a contemporary cap and dis­
    playing rugged, chiseled features, appears in the sixteenth-century por­
    trait engraving of Philotheo Achillini by Marcantonio Raimondi after
    Francesco Francia (Hind 1923, fig. 37,- Oberhuber 1978, 27: no. 469 [349]).

  2. Gardelli 1999, 116-17, no. 59 (identified as on the art market).

  3. Rackham 1940, 1: nos. 303-4; 2: pi. 50; Join-Dieterle 1984, 124-25,
    no. 35; Ravanelli Guidotti 1998, 333-34, no. 80.

  4. Hind 1909-10, 1: no. 6, fig. 22.

  5. Ravanelli Guidotti 1998, 334, fig. 8oe.

  6. Liverani 1975, 140, pis. 88a-b, 89a, 9oa-b.

  7. Rackham 1940, 1: no. 286; 2, pi. 46; Ravanelli Guidotti 1998, 289,
    fig- 19-


180 Jug with a Musical Theme

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