This dish (or brasero) comes from a lavish ensemble of tableware created for the delle Agli family of Florence. The family's arms, featuring a rampant wolf, appears at the center. (The purplish color is as close as the potters could get to the prescribed red.)
The arms are ringed by garlic, a playful reference to the consonance between the family name and the Italian word for garlic (aglio). The scrolling vine pattern of the border is recognizable as bryony.
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Title:Deep Dish
Date:1430–1460
Geography:Made in Manises, Valencia, Spain
Culture:Spanish
Medium:Tin-glazed earthenware
Dimensions:Overall: 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm)
Classification:Ceramics
Credit Line:The Cloisters Collection, 1956
Object Number:56.171.152
Marking: Arms: delle Agli of Florence
[ Hôtel Drouot, Paris (May 8, 1894, no. 5)] ; [ Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., Paris and New York] ; William Randolph Hearst American, 1863–1951, New York and San Simeon, CA. (until 1951) ; William Randolph Hearst Foundation, New York (1951–1956)
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla. "Fine European Earthenware," May 8–June 10, 1973.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting," December 17, 2023–August 4, 2024.
Detroit Institute of Arts. "Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting," September 22, 2024–January 5, 2025.
Catalogue d'une précieuse collection de faïences italiennes, hispano moresques d'Alcora et de Nimes. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, May 8, 1894. no. 5, p. 5, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "'Additions to the Collections,' Eighty-Seventh Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year 1956-1957." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 16, no. 2 (October 1957). p. 65.
Randall, Richard Jr. "Lusterware of Spain." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 15, no. 10 (June 1957). p. 215.
Husband, Timothy B. "Valencian Lusterware of the Fifteenth Century: Notes and Documents." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 29, no. 1 (Summer 1970). p. 18, fig. 11.
Frothingham, Alice Wilson, ed. Fine European Earthenware. Special Exhibition Issue, Pharos, Vol. 11, no. 1. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Museum of Fine Arts, 1973. no. 13, pp. 6, 10, 20.
Spallanzani, Marco. Maioliche ispano-moresche a Firenze nel Rinascimento. Florence: Edizioni S.P.E.S., 2006. pp. 134, 173, 182, 276, fig. 46.
Dectot, Xavier. Céramiques hispaniques (XIIe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Musée National du Moyen Âge - Thermes et Hôtel de Cluny, 2007. pp. 46–48.
Wilson, Timothy. Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Highlights of the Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016. p. 6, fig. 8.
Komaroff, Linda, ed. Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting. New York: DelMonico Books, 2023. fig. 123c, p. 327.
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