Ink Stand: Saint George and the Dragon

Italian
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in

European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Ink Stand: Saint George and the Dragon

between 1470 and 1490

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Italian

Italian

Reddish earthenware, slip-coated; incised design, heightened with green, brown, yellow, grayish blue; transparent glaze

Overall: 13 5/16 × 12 × 20 1/4 inches (33.8 × 30.5 × 51.4 cm)

Ceramics

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund

26.291

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

by 1880, Eugene Felix (Leipzig, Germany)

1886, Felix sale

Richard Zschille (Grossenheim, near Dresden, Germany)

1899, Zschille sale

1899, purchased by Goldschmidt

(R. Langton Douglas, London, England)

1926-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sutton, Denys. "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III." Apollo (June 1979): pp. 183- 189, no. 54.

Cole, B. "Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections." Apollo 107 (January 1978): pp. 38-43.

Dennis, Jessie McNab. "Ceramics and Glass." The Triumph of Humanism. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1977 (fig. 8).

DIA Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 126.

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1958, cat. no. 87.

Keith, D. Graeme. The Triumph of Humanism. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Museum. San Francisco, ca. 1977, pp. 64, 89, cat. no. 177.

Thorton, Dora. The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy, 1998 (fig. 110).

Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 36.

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Italian, Ink Stand: Saint George and the Dragon, between 1470 and 1490, reddish earthenware, slip-coated; incised design, heightened with green, brown, yellow, grayish blue; transparent glaze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 26.291.

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