The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Dish with a Lion

Dish with a Lion

c. 1430–50

Description

This dish is representative of the rustic type of maiolica produced in Italy before 1450. The design is much inspired by contemporary Spanish earthenware. The surface of the dish is painted in a cobalt blue impasto technique known as zaffera a rilevo. Lions frequently adorn wares decorated in this technique and are particularly appropriate as a Florentine motif-they probably refer to that city's lion emblem.
  • Charles Damiron, Lyon.
  • Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
    CMA 1966: "Golden Anniversary Acquisitions"
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1966.19