Plate with Pan and Apollo, c. 1535/1540

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 17

Medium

tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

Dimensions

overall (height by diameter): 4 × 27.1 cm (1 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.4019

Artists / Makers

Urbino 16th Century (ceramist) Italian, 16th century

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center, shield of arms:[1] Impaled: Dexter, party per pale: I, tierced per fess, sable, or and azure; 2, azure, on a bend sinister or three raven's heads sable (for Rabenhaupt von Suche). Sinister, party per fess: in chief, azure, a griffin argent; in base, azure two pole-axes crossed in saltire argent (for Lamparter); across center reverse: Pan et Appollo; reverse, Hainauer catalogue number: M.66.

Inscription Notes

[1] Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, exh. cat. (11 venues), London and Washington, 1986: 183. Timothy Wilson provided Watson with the information that Dr. Fischer of the Hauptstaatarchiv, Stuttgart, had identified the arms as referring to the marriage of Genoveva, third daughter of the Chancellor of Wurttemberg, Gregor Lamparter, and Nikolaus Rabenhaupt von Such, Chancellor of Lower Austria. At the time Watson wrote her catalogue, at least ten pieces were known with these arms (four in Budapest, two in Vienna, and one each in the British Museum, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, and the Pringsheim Collection).

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: 38, 117, no. 346 (M66).

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): 262, no. 66.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection." The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin 7, no. 3 (April 1955): no. 84.

1986: Watson, Wendy M. Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection. Exh. cat. (11 venues). London and Washington, 1986: 183, no. 108, repro.