Spouted drug jar with sphinxes, 1507

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 17

Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by widest diameter): 22.4 × 17.8 cm (8 13/16 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.3988

Artists / Makers

Deruta 16th Century (ceramist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on central band: SYRᴼ.IVIVBINO (syrup of jujube); on reverse: 1507; beneath foot: undeciphered scratched marks

Provenance

Oskar Hainauer [1840-1894], Berlin; by inheritance to his widow, Julie Hainauer [1850-1926], Berlin; purchased 1906 with the entire Hainauer collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 17 October 1906 to William Andrews Clark [1839-1925], New York;[1] bequest 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Series I.D, General business records, 1907-1964, reel 59, box 163, Hainauer collection sales ledger, July 1906-December 1909; copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hainauer, Julie
Hainauer, Oskar

Bibliography

1897: Bode, Wilhelm von, ed. Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer / The Collection of Oscar Hainauer. [bound as one volume, English and German pages interleaved in one page sequence] Berlin, 1897 and London, 1906: 109, no. 296 (Maiolica 16).

1925: Carroll, Dana H. Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part II. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 255, no. 16.