12C Dish with coat of arms of the Baglioni family. Deruta, ca. 1515-20.
Tin-glazed earthenware, Diam: 40 cm {i$^3 A in.). Bequest of John Rin
gling, Collection of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the
State Art Museum of Florida, in v. 7045. The beginning of the inscrip
tion reads "Long live the Baglioni family."12 D Page of Comunitatis Castri Diruta, 1489. Deruta, Catasto del Comune,
ASP, ASCP, Catasti II gruppo, 43, C.5R. The decorated initial on this
page from local communal documents prominently features a jar made
in Deruta with two rope-twist handles.
Notes- Such as the Fabbrini of Florence or Sanseverino of Salerno. Guido Dona-
tone (1993A, pis. 46, i62d) proposes the latter in reference to this jar,
suggesting that the Getty vessel was made in Naples. - The plates include one formerly in the Adda collection, Paris (Rackham
1959 , no. 343, pi. 148b); another formerly in the Charles Damiron col
lection, Lyons (art market, London, late 1990s), a third plate sold at
Christie's, London, July 2, 1990, lot 195; a fourth sold at Galerie
Georges Petit, Paris, May 9-10, 1927, lot 27 (reprod. upside down in
sale cat.); a fifth sold at Sotheby's, Florence, October 19, 1970, lot (^51) ;
and a sixth in the Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York (Rasmussen 1989, 36-37, 70-71, nos. 23, 40). Another
plate in the Museo Regionale della Ceramica di Deruta exhibits the
Baglioni shield impaled with another (Busti and Cocchi 1999, 243,
no. 158). The two-handled jars include one from the Blumka collection,
sold at Sotheby's, New York, January 9, 1996, lot 12; another in the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Fiocco and Gherardi 1994, 153,
no. 16); a third in the Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York (Rasmussen 1989, 36-37, no. 23); and a fourth in the Musee
du Louvre, Paris (Giacomotti 1974, 28, no. 88).
- John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, inv. S.N.
7045 (Ladis 1989, 58-59, no. 10). - Busti and Cocchi 1987, 14-20, pi. 5c; Fiocco and Gherardi 1988, 5,
no. 1: 259-50, nos. 152-53,- Fiocco and Gherardi 1994, 144-45,
nos. 5-7; Bojani 1992, fig. 32. - Carmen Ravanelli Guidotti (19 8 5 B, 95, no. 6 9) discusses Luci Lenzi's
analysis (1982, 2 2ff) of the original oral proverb or prayer on which this
inscription is based. - Liverani i960, 22.
- Ballardini 1975, 53.
- Documentary sources describe the movement of craftsmen as well as
their products, which was probably determined as much by economic
factors as by the quest for new talent and novel styles. Although these
sources date from the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they do not
exclude the possibility of earlier exchanges (see, for example, Ballardini
I922A, 144-47).
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