Two-handled vase with Medici and Orsini Arms

ca. 1475 - 1485

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

Two-handled vase with Medici and Orsini Arms

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Title Two-handled vase with Medici and Orsini Arms

Artwork Date ca. 1475 - 1485

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Medium Tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration

Dimensions Overall: 15 1/4 × 11 1/8 × 8 1/4 inches (38.7 × 28.3 × 21 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of the Women's Committee with additional funds from Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.74

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Provenance

15th century, Medici villa (Poggio a Caiano outside Florence, Italy)
January 15, 1931, sold by the (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) Achille de Clemente sale, lot 436;
(French & Co., New York, New York, USA).
The Women's Committee and Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Middeldorf, U. "Medici Pottery of the Fifteenth Century." Bulletin of the DIA 16 (March 1937): pp. 91-96, no. 6, (cover ill.).

Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1958, cat. no. 83

Cora, G. Storia della Maiolica di Firenze e del Contado: Secoli XIV e XV. Florence, 1973, pp. 134, 463, no. 165, pl. 165.

Spallanzani, M. "Il Vaso Medici-Orsini di Detroit in un Documento D'archivio." Faenza, 1974, pp. 88-90.

Avery, C. "The Patronage of the Medici." The Triumph of Humanism. Exh. cat., Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1977, pp. 17-25, no. 16

Wilson, T. "Maioliche Rinascimentali Armoriate con Stemmi Fiorenti." L'araldica Fonti e Metodi. Florence, 1989, pp. 128-138.

Bayer, A. et al. Art and Love in Renaissance Italy. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2008), cat. no. 1, pp. 68-69.

Bulletin of the DIA 87, no. 1/4: Italian Renaissance and Later Ceramics (2013): cat. no. 9.

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Italian , Tuscany, probably Montelupo, Two-handled vase with Medici and Orsini Arms, ca. 1475 - 1485, tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Women's Committee with additional funds from Robert H. Tannahill, 37.74.