About the Artwork
Aesacus and Hesperia
1537
Attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo
ca. 1486 - 1542
Italian
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Tin-glazed earthenware with enamel decoration
Overall: 1 1/4 × 10 1/4 inches (3.2 × 26 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Joseph Boyer Memorial Fund
57.36
Public Domain
Markings
Signed: F.X.R. [artist's initials]
Inscribed, on bottom, in dark blue: 1537 | Dal sasso i le sals | ode Esaco giettasi. | .F.X.R [translation: Aesacus jumped from the rocks into the salt sea | initials for Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo]
Marks, in red, on bottom: 57.36
Provenance
(R. Stora, New York, New York, USA);1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, n.p.
Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 16.
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attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo, Aesacus and Hesperia, 1537, tin-glazed earthenware with enamel decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Joseph Boyer Memorial Fund, 57.36.
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