Plate with an allegorical scene of Calliope and a youth (from the Ladder Service)

c. 1525/1528

Nicola da Urbino

Ceramist, Italian, active 1520s - c. 1537/1538

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alessandro Castellani [1823-1883], Rome; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27-29 May 1878, 2nd day, no. 272). 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.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, Detroit Institute of Arts, 18 November 1958 - 4 January 1959, no. 120A, repro.

1978

  • The William A. Clark Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 26 April - 16 July 1978, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 60.

1990

  • Loan to display with permanent collection, Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, Hadley, Massachusetts, 1990-1994.

2004

  • Marvels of Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids; Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 9 April 2004 - 18 June 2006, no. 14.

2007

  • Treasures of European Decorative Art and Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 25 August 2007 - 29 March 2009, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1897

  • Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 37-38 repro., 114, no. 326 (M46).

1925

  • Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 259, no. 46.

1928

  • Rackham, Bernard. "Some Unpublished Maiolica by Pellipario." _The Burlington Magazine" 52, no. 302 (May 1928): 236, pl. IV-C.

1955

  • Von Erdberg, Joan Prentice. "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art." The Burlington Magazine 97, no. 624 (March 1955): 73, 75 fig. 14.

  • Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 71, fig. 1.

Inscriptions

on central column, shield of arms: Azure, a ladder in bend or, out of it a standard in pale argent; lower center, on book: omnia vin / cit am / or et ce / damus[or vr] / omnia / [two illegible lines] / questo (Omnia-vincit-amor-et cedamus[or vr] ... guesto); center right, on triangular tablet: 0 / 519 / 462 370; center reverse, a cross-shaped mark

Wikidata ID

Q62287915

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