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Title/s | The Holy Family |
Maker/s | Milan Marsyas Painter (painter) Caraglio, Giovanni Giacomo after (printmaker) Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) after (painter) [ULAN info: Italian artist, 1503-1540] |
Collection | |
Category |
tin-glazed earthenware |
Name |
cover |
School/Style | |
Description | Maiolica cover from an accouchement set bowl, painted in polychrome with the Holy Family. Cover from an accouchement set bowl. Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, black, grey, and white. Circular with a flange on the underside; the upper surface flat with a convex rim. The Holy Family in an architectural setting; on the rim, bound leaves and berries between concentric yellow bands. On the back, two putti standing on clouds support a shield bearing the arms sable, a fess or, a chief party per pale gules and argent two rosettes counterchanged flanked by the letters `ELI' and `PYA'; below, a winged putto's head. The background is blue above the arms and brown below. The flange and rim are yellow. |
Production Notes | If not painted by the 'Milan Marsyas Painter' this was probably painted by Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo The Holy Family on the top of the cover was derived from the Adoration of the Shepherds, engraved by G.G. Caraglio after Parmigianino |
Production Place | Urbino (painter) (place) The Marches (painter) (region) Italy (painter) (country) Italy (printmaker) (country) () Italy (painter) (country) () |
Technique Description | Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow, orange, black, grey, and white. |
Dimensions |
height: (whole): 1.9
cm |
Period | 2nd quarter 16th century |
Date | circa 1531 |
Provenance | bequeathed: Marlay, Charles Brinsley 1912 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Signora Angela Beni, San Severino (Marche); given by her to Giuseppe Ranaldi (1790-1854). Alessandro Castellani; Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 May 1878, Catalogue des faïences italiennes . . . et de deux pièces de la célèbre porcelaine des Medicis, composant l'importante collection de M. Alessandro Castellani, lot 292; C.B. Marlay before 1887.C.B. Marlay Bequest |
Documentation |
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Other Notes | From at least the fifteenth century it was customary to give a new mother a little maiolica service to use during her recovery after childbirth. In Romagna and the Marches these became known as 'un servizio da impagliata' because the word 'impagliata' was used to describe a woman during her lying-in. According to Cipriano Piccolpasso (c. 1523/4-79) in I tre libri del Arte del Vasaio, written about 1557, the services usually had five pieces arranged on top of each other: a standing bowl covered by a trencher, a drinking bowl on a foot, and a salt and its cover. These sets are mentioned in many fifteenth and sixteenth century inventories but apart from a salt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, only bowls and covers appear to have survived. Most of them are decorated with scenes of childbirth, the washing of babies, or women with small children. Others have childbirth scenes from the Bible or classical mythology, or subjects connected with qualities, such as valour, which it was hoped the child would acquire. |
Accession Number | MAR.C.60-1912 (Applied Arts) |
Related Object | C.86-1961 - The Judgement of Paris |
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