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Plate with the Arms of the Pucci Family

Plate with the Arms of the Pucci Family

1532
(Italian, 1487?–1544?)
Italy, Urbino
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
Diameter: 3.2 x 19 cm (1 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.626
Location: 118 Italian Renaissance

Did You Know?

A more contemporary head of the family, Emilio Pucci, became famous as a fashion designer in the 1960s and 1970s.

Description

Italian nobles of the 1500s often expressed their wealth, social status, and sophistication by ordering large sets of maiolica that sometimes carried their coats of arms or even likenesses, usually in profile as in portraits of the period. The Pucci family was a powerful noble household in Renaissance Florence who were at times quite close allies of the Medici, a prominent banking family.
  • Marquis Pucci, Florence
    Casa di Clementi
    John L. Severance [1863-1936]
  • John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Mentioned: p. 285-293; Reproduced: p. 297 archive.org
    Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Mentioned: p. 46, cat. no. 95 archive.org
    Busti, Giulio, Mauro Cesaretti, and Franco Cocchi. La maiolica italiana del Rinascimento: studi e ricerche : atti del convegno internazionale, Assisi 9-11 settembre 2016. 2019. Reproduced and mentioned; p. 225, Fig. 62
  • No legacy exhibitions.
    Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).
  • {{cite web|title=Plate with the Arms of the Pucci Family|url=false|author=Francesco Xanto Avelli|year=1532|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.626