Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collections

$85.00 at The Getty Museum.

Catherine Hess In 1984 the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired an exceptional collection of Italian Renaissance maiolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. These often brilliantly colored objects range from an early Florentine jar with oak leaf decoration to a much later Mannerist dish with grotesque ornament. Italian Ceramics catalogues this fine collection of forty-five objects spanning four hundred years, including a pair of eighteenth-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes, a tabletop with hunting…