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

i OB Albarello. Valencia (Manises), third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Tin-glazed earthenware, H: 39.5 cm (15/2 in.). London, Victoria and
Albert Museum, inv. 53-1907.

one the opportunity to view the artist's hand in its

painted decoration. For the green stripes the artist dipped

the brush once into pigment, placed the color-laden

brush on the body, and as the jar was turned, the color be­

came depleted, leaving a much lighter green where the

end of the stripe meets the beginning. In addition, the

artist painted the rosette motifs without considering

the size of the piece, so that the last rosette was forced to

fit into the remaining space and as a result appears more

oval than round.

Notes

1. Conti 1980, pi. 70.


2. For other examples of this scroll motif, derived from the Chinese
   "classic scroll," see no. 11 below, especially note 3.


3. Examples are found in Frothingham 19 5 1, figs. 85, 87.


4. See, for example, Rackham 1940, 2: nos. 67, pi. u; 80, pi. 13.


5. Berti 1997, 303-30.


6. See Frothingham 1951, figs. 70-72.


7. Berti 1997 , 245-301 passim, especially nos. 92, 95-96, 98, 119-21,
   168, Berti 1999, fig. 45.

ioc Deep dish. Valencia, ca. 1450. Tin-glazed earthenware, Diam: 39.5

cm (15 Vi in.). New York, Hispanic Society of America, inv. E5 5 5.

IOD Fragments of a jug. Montelupo, 1460-70. Tin-glazed earthenware,

H: 23.5 cm (9 'A in.). Restored from fragments found in excavation at

Palazzo Podestarile, Montelupo. Montelupo, Museo Archeologico e della

Ceramica.

68 Jar with Foliate Decoration