Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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204 ITALIAN CERAMICS


European Pottery, p. 44, fig. 1; "Acquisitions/
1984," GettyMusJi^ (1985), no. 171, p. 242,
illus.; Hess, Maiolica, no. 21, pp. 66-68.

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  1. Lustered Display Plate with Female
    Bust (piaito da pompa)
    Deruta, circa 1500-1530
    Tin-glazed earthenware
    Inscribed VIVIS ERO VIVfUJS Ε
    MORTVfUJS ERO VIVfUJS on the scroll.
    Height: 3 /2 in. (8.8 cm); Diameter:
    ι ft. 4% in. (42.8 cm)
    Accession number 84 .DE.110
    PROVENANCE
    R. W. M. Walker, London; (sold, Christies,
    London, July 25,1945, lot 73); Adda col­
    lection, Paris; (sold, Christie's, London,
    November 20,1967, lot 87); [Rainer Zietz,
    Ltd., London].


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernard Rackham, IsUmic Pottery and
Italian Maiolica (London, 1959), no. 34b,
p. 143, pi. 231; Morley-Fletcher and Mcllroy,
European Pottery, p. 52, fig. 7; "Acquisitions/
1984," GettyMusJ13 (1985), no. 172, p. 243,
illus.; Hess, Maiolica, no. 22, pp. 69-71.


  1. Cylindrical Jar with Lame Peasant
    (albarello)
    Cylindrical Jar with Woman and
    Distaff (albarello)
    Faenza, circa 1510
    Tin-glazed earthenware
    Marked on the back of each jar, B°.
    Height: 9% in. (24.8 cm); Diameter (at lip):
    5Me in. (12.9 cm); Maximum Diameter: Jar .1:
    6% in. (15.9 cm); Jar .2: 6Ys in. (16.Ι cm)
    Accession number 84 .DE.112.1-.2
    PROVENANCE
    J. Pierpont Morgan, New York; Joseph E.
    Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania (sold,
    Samuel Τ Freeman and Co., Philadelphia,
    June 20,1944, lots 326-327); Dr. Bak, New
    York (sold, Sotheby's, New York, Decem­
    ber 7,1965, lot 54); Benjamin Sonnenberg,
    New York (sold, Sotheby's, New York, June 5,
    1979, lot 356); [Rainer Zietz, Ltd., London].


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bernard Rackham, "A New Chapter in
the History of Italian Maiolica," Burlington
Magazine 27 (May 1915), p. 50; Inventory of
the Ob jets d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins
Park, Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener
(privately printed, Philadelphia, 1935),

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