Salt Cellar
the Milan Marsyas Painter · c. 1530
Provenance
Ownership history
- Edward R. Lubin, Inc, New York, by 1964; sold to the Art Institute, 1964.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Greta Kaucher, Le peintre du Marsyas de Milan. La majolique historiée à Urbino en 1530 (Paris: Feu et Talent, 2024), 133, no. 12.
- J.V.G. Mallet, Xanto: Pottery-Painter, Poet, Man of the Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (London: The Wallace Collection, 2007), 122, no. 37.
- Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum oollection, vol. 1 (London: 2009), 275, no. 162.
- Julia Catherine Triolo, The Armorial Maiolica of Francesco Xanto Avelli (Ph.D. thesis, The Pennsylvania State University, 1996), 278.
- Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance (Milan: 1996), 188, 191.
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