Basin, majolica ware; deep, round; ochre ground with blue and white poppy scrolls around central floral design; floral design in wide band above; rim decorated with 3 rows of polychrom overlapping scales and one zigzag band at edge; double crown and shield on one reserved side of rim; food pierced for hanging; one large area restored (fragile); geometric and floral band in cobalt blue on white ground on back; old lable on back (illegible) says in part: "PLAT___, MATIAS C, ___ LORVIN [?], FORLI ON FAENZA, ANTI ___ 1490
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Faenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Culture or time period:
Italian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Faience (composite material), Glaze (coating by location), Lead (metal), Tin (metal), and Tin (metal) (glazed, earthenware. tin-glazed earthenware (so-called majolica, faience, fayence, delftware, produced by glassy lead glaze opacified by the addition of oxide (ashes) of tin.))
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Earthenware
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Production date:
1476-1485
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Dimensions:
diameter 47 centimeters
Comment:
Paper label on back mentions date of 1490. One of four surviving plates from majolica service ordered to commemorate marriage of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary to Beatrice of Aragon in 1476. The service was made during the years 1476 - 1485. Two of the other plates are at the Victoria & Albert and the other is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Arms of Beatrice and Corvinus on rim.
Loans:
S2006-2007 #3c: Museum of Applied Arts (March 28, 2007–March 15, 2008) and S2007-2008 #3: Museum of Applied Arts (March 15, 2008–July 8, 2008)