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Works of Art (35)

Antefix in the shape of a female head, ca. 625–600 B.C., South Italian; From Matauros, Terracotta (22.139.56)
Apothecary Jar (Orciuolo), 1431 (?), Florence, perhaps workshop of Giunta di Tugio (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1061)
Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 1520–25 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019)
Barrel oinochoe, 8th–early 7th century B.C.; Italo-Geometric, Italian peninsula, possibly Campania or Etruria, Terracotta (1975.363)
Broth Bowl and Cover (scodella and tagliere), ca. 1530–40, Baldassare Manara (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1043a)
Bust of Francis I, 1529, Girolamo della Robbia (Italian), Glazed terracotta (41.100.245)
Centerpiece, ca. 1775–80, Italian; Cozzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (1977.216.37)
Centuripe vase, ca. 400–375 B.C.; Hellenistic, Italic-Native, Sicilian (Centuripe) Terracotta (53.11.5)
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)
Dish, 15th century (1486–87), Possibly made in Pesaro, Italy, Majolica (tin-enameled earthenware) (46.85.30)
Dish, ca. 1520, Italian (Deruta), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) with on-glaze blue painting and luster (29.100.93)
Ewer, 16th century (ca. 1575–87), Manufactured in the Medici workshops, Florence, Italy, Soft-paste porcelain (17.190.2045)
Figure of Pulcinella, ca. 1755–65, Italian or Spanish; Capodimonte or Buen Retiro, Soft-paste porcelain (50.211.264)
Figures of the Mourning Virgin and Saint John, ca. 1744–45, Italian; Capodimonte, Soft-paste porcelain (45.7 cm)
Iphicles and Hercules Attacked by Snakes, mid-15th century, Italy; Padua, Terracotta (2006.453)
Jar, ca. 1750, Italian; Capodimonte, Soft-paste porcelain (50.211.266)
Jug, ca. 220–250, Roman, Terracotta (74.51.383)
"La Passeggiata Archaeologica" ("An Archaeological Stroll") urn with cover, 1925, Gio Ponti (Italian), Porcelain (31.83ab)
Lamentation Group, dated 1487, Italian (Faenza), probably made for a Franciscan church or convent near Faenza, Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (04.26a-h)
Lamp, late 1st century B.C.–early 1st century A.D.; Early Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, mold-made, (74.51.2027)
Pharmacy Jar, dated 1515, Italian (Siena), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (23.166)
Pharmacy Jar, late 15th century, Italian (Naples), Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (46.85.15)
Plate (Piatto), 1532, Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1131)
Platter, ca. 1745, Italian; Doccia, Hard-paste porcelain (06.372a)
Relief portrait of Carlo Bertinazzi, ca. 1770, Italian; Perhaps Cozzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (66.92)
Statuette of a gladiator, 1st–2nd century A.D.; Imperial, Roman, Terracotta, (10.210.78)
Teapot, 1720–27, Italian; Vezzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (06.362ab)
The Pot Seller, ca. 1745, Italian; Capodimonte, Soft-paste porcelain (1982.450.4)
The Rape of Proserpina, ca. 1750, Italian; Doccia, Hard-paste porcelain (1997.377)
The River Nile, ca. 1785–95, Giovanni Volpato (Italian), Hard-paste biscuit porcelain (2001.456)
Tondo: Prudence, ca. 1475, Andrea della Robbia (Italian), Italian (Florence), Terracotta with tinted tin-enamel glazes (21.116)
Tray, dated 1784, Italian (Pesaro); Made at the Casali and Galigari Factory (59.208.26)
Wine Cistern, ca. 1562, Manufactured by the factory of Orazio Fontana, Urbino, Italy, Tin-glazed earthenware (majolica) (32.100.362)
Wine coolers, ca. 1760–70, Italian; Doccia, Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain (1985.384.1,.2)
Lamp with Jewish Symbols, made 350–450, Byzantine, Terracotta (91.1.1621)

Thematic Essays (14)