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Plate with Arms of the Vitelleschi Family
Giorgio Andreoli1527
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Italian nobles of the 1500s often expressed their wealth, social status, and sophistication by ordering large sets of maiolica that sometimes carried their coats of arms or even likenesses, usually in profile as in portraits of the period. Reserved for use at festival events such as a wedding or commissioned to mark a special occasion or an important visit, elaborately decorated utilitarian vessels in maiolica were prized as works of art by their owners and displayed as such in their residences.
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- Title: Plate with Arms of the Vitelleschi Family
- Creator: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli (Italian, 1465?–1553)
- Date Created: 1527
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 26.3 cm (10 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Baron Max von Goldschmidt- Rothschild, Frankfurt-am-Main.
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.155
- Medium: tin-glazed earthenware with gold luster (maiolica)
- Inscriptions: signed: M. G da Agubio, 1527.
- Fun Fact: Today, the Palazzo Vitelleschi, home of the Vitelleschi family in Tarquinia, a coastal town north of Rome, is an archaeological museum.
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: Italy, Urbino region, Gubbio
- Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1950.155
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