Works of Art (36)
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Antefix in the shape of a female head, ca. 625–600 B.C.,
South Italian; From Matauros,
Terracotta (22.139.56) |
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Apothecary Jar (Orciuolo), 1431 (?), Florence, perhaps workshop of Giunta di Tugio (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1061) |
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Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 1520–25 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019) |
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Barrel oinochoe, 8th–early 7th century B.C.; Italo-Geometric, Italian peninsula, possibly Campania or Etruria, Terracotta (1975.363) |
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Bust of Francis I, 1529, Girolamo della Robbia (Italian), Glazed terracotta (41.100.245) |
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Centerpiece, ca. 1775–80, Italian; Cozzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (1977.216.37) |
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Centuripe vase, ca. 400–375 B.C.; Hellenistic, Italic-Native, Sicilian (Centuripe) Terracotta (53.11.5) |
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Childbirth bowl (scodella) with Aeneas Fleeing Troy (interior) and grotteschi (exterior); and tray (tagliere) with Pyramis and Thisbe (top) and Hercules and the Nemean Lion (bottom), ca. 1530–40,
Baldassare Manara (Italian, Faenza),
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (1975.1.1043a,b) |
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Column-krater with artist painting a marble statue of Herakles, ca. 350–320 B.C.; Red-figure, Greek, South Italian, Apulian,
Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348, Terracotta (50.11.4) |
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Dish with an allegory of Chastity and the arms of Matthias Corvinus and Beatrice of Aragon, 1476–ca. 1490,
Probably Pesaro,
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) (46.85.30) |
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Dish, ca. 1520, Italian (Deruta), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) with on-glaze blue painting and luster (29.100.93) |
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Ewer, 16th century (ca. 1575–87), Manufactured in the Medici workshops, Florence, Italy, Soft-paste porcelain (17.190.2045) |
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Figure of Pulcinella, ca. 1755–65, Italian or Spanish; Capodimonte or Buen Retiro, Soft-paste porcelain (50.211.264) |
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Figures of the Mourning Virgin and Saint John, ca. 1744–45, Italian; Capodimonte, Soft-paste porcelain (45.7 cm) |
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Iphicles and Hercules Attacked by Snakes, mid-15th century,
Italy; Padua,
Terracotta (2006.453) |
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Jar, ca. 1750, Italian; Capodimonte, Soft-paste porcelain (50.211.266) |
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Jug, ca. 220–250, Roman, Terracotta (74.51.383) |
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"La Passeggiata Archaeologica" ("An Archaeological Stroll") urn with cover, 1925,
Gio Ponti (Italian),
Porcelain (31.83ab) |
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Lamentation Group, dated 1487, Italian (Faenza), probably made for a Franciscan church or convent near Faenza, Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (04.26a-h) |
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Lamp with Jewish Symbols, made 350–450,
Byzantine,
Terracotta (91.1.1621) |
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Lamp, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Early Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, mold-made, (74.51.2027) |
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Pharmacy Jar, dated 1515, Italian (Siena), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (23.166) |
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Pharmacy Jar, late 15th century, Italian (Naples), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (46.85.15) |
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Plate (Piatto), 1532, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1131) |
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Platter, ca. 1745, Italian; Doccia, Hard-paste porcelain (06.372a) |
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The Pot Seller, ca. 1745, Italian; Capodimonte, Soft-paste porcelain (1982.450.4) |
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The Rape of Proserpina, ca. 1750, Italian; Doccia, Hard-paste porcelain (1997.377) |
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Relief of King Oinomaos and his charioteer Myrtilos, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 B.C.–68 A.D.,
Roman,
Terracotta (26.60.31);
Relief of a mythological couple in a chariot, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 B.C.–68 A.D.,
Roman,
Terracotta (26.60.32);
Relief of a youth and girl, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 B.C.–68 A.D.,
Roman,
Terracotta (26.60.33) |
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Relief portrait of Carlo Bertinazzi, ca. 1770, Italian; Perhaps Cozzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (66.92) |
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The River Nile, ca. 1785–95, Giovanni Volpato (Italian), Hard-paste biscuit porcelain (2001.456) |
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Statuette of a gladiator, 1st–2nd century A.D.; Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, (10.210.78) |
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Teapot, 1720–27, Italian; Vezzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (06.362ab) |
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Tondo: Prudence, ca. 1475, Andrea della Robbia (Italian), Italian (Florence), Terracotta with tinted tin-enamel glazes (21.116) |
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Tray, dated 1784, Italian (Pesaro); Made at the Casali and Galigari Factory (59.208.26) |
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Wine Cistern, ca. 1562, Manufactured by the factory of Orazio Fontana, Urbino, Italy, Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (32.100.362) |
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Wine coolers, ca. 1760–70, Italian; Doccia, Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain (1985.384.1,.2) |
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Thematic Essays (15)
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