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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