ITALIAN RENAISSANCE CERAMICS
VOLUME I
Foreword vii Acknowledgements ix
Preface 1
A history of the British Museum collection of Italian Renaissance ceramics 4
List of abbreviations 24
Map of pottery centres 25
MAIOLICA 26
1 14th and uth centuries 26
Veneto 26
Emilia-Romagna 28
Tuscany 37
Le Marche 58
Umbria 69
Campania 82
Naples 82
Location uncertain 86
2 16th century 89
Veneto 89
Paduan istoriato 99
Emilia-Romagna 103
Faenza 103
Baldassarre Manara 147
Rimini 171
Tuscany 173
Siena 173
Cafaggiolo 186
Montelupo 199
Sculpture and works of the Della Robbia workshop 219
Le Marche 227
Urbino and the Duchy of Urbino 227
The painter 'TB' 227
Nicola da Urbino 229
The 'In Castel Durante' painter and related works 250
1 Francesco Xanto Avelli 256
Giulio da Urbino 290
Urbino istoriato from the Fontana and other workshops 293
Lustred istoriato 342
'Belle donne' and similar dishes 344
Pesaro 348
Sculpture 359
Ornamental motifs 363
Castel Durante, attributed to the workshop of the Picchi family 382
White ground grotesques 392
Late Urbino-style istoriato 418
VOLUME II
Umbria 421
Monte Bagnolo 421
Deruta 423
Unlustred 423
Spindle whorls 449
Lustred 453
Deruta lustre wares with relief decoration 48o
Deruta lustred sculpture 484
Gubbio 487
Maestro Giorgio of Gubbio 487
Gubbio lustre with relief decoration 531 Abruzzi 538
Castelli 538
Italian painters working in France 546
Location uncertain 554
3 17th century 555
Veneto 555
Lombardy 561
Liguria and Piedmont (16th and 17th centuries) 566
Tuscany 576
Emilia-Romagna 580
Le Marche 584
Urbino 584
Urbania (formerly Castel Durante) 589
Umbria 593
Deruta 593
Abruzzi 594
Castelli 594
Calabria 597
Location in Italy uncertain 599
Northern Europe 603
4 Tiles 605
5 Falls, doubtful, problematic, and modern pieces 630
SLIPWARE AND OTHER LEAD-GLAZED WARES 640
Veneto/Lombardy 641
Emilia-Romagna 659
Tuscany 670
Abruzzi 684
Other/uncertain 686
Fakes, doubtful and modern 690
MEDICI PORCELAIN 694
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