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This is a photograph of a decorative ceramic plate. The plate features an intricate design with a central depiction of a mythical creature set against a geometric backdrop. Radiating outwards are concentric circles filled with detailed patterns in shades of blue, orange, and white. The outermost border of the plate is adorned with repetitive diamond and circular designs.
National Gallery of Art · Decorative Art
Basin with geometric patterns and dragon
Deruta or Faenza 15th Century
- Date
- c. 1480/1500
- Medium
- tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
- Dimensions
- overall (height by diameter): 4.7 × 38.2 cm (1 7/8 × 15 1/16 in.)
- Classification
- Decorative Art · Ceramic
- Accession number
- 2014.136.308
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
- Time span
- 1401 to 1500
- Department
- CSD
Subjects and terms
- geometric
- non-representational
- fantasy
- animal
- Renaissance
- Maiolica
- Geometric
- Acquired after publication of Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics
- tin-glazed
- Dragon
Provenance
Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin; by inheritance to his widow, Julie Hainauer [1850-1926], Berlin; purchased 1906 with the entire Hainauer collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 17 October 1906 to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[1] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series I.D, General business records, 1907-1964, reel 59, box 163, Hainauer collection sales ledger, July 1906-December 1909; copy in NGA curatorial files.
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