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Cherub's Head with Cornucopiae

Artist Giovanni della Robbia (Italian, 1469 - ca. 1530)
Dateearly 16th century
MediumGlazed terracotta, fragment of a frieze
DimensionsOverall: 21 × 34 × 7 inches (53.34 × 86.36 × 17.78 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-170
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 108
Collections
Exhibition History
N/A
Gallery Label
This plaque is a fragment of a frieze from some dismembered altarpiece, font, or tabernacle.

Provenance

Émile Gavet (1830-1904), Paris, by 1889-June 9, 1897;

 

His sale, Objets d’art et de haute curiosité de la Renaissance, Tableaux, Tapisseries composant la collection de M. Émile Gavet, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9, 1897, lot 193, as by Andrea della Robbia;

 

With French and Co., New York, by May 1933;

 

Purchased from French and Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.

Published References

Émile Molinier, Collection Émile Gavet (Paris:  Imprimerie de D. Jouaust, 1889), no. 5, pp. 5, as Tête de chérubin.

Catalogue des Objets d’Art et de houte curiosite de la renaissance tableaux, tapisseries composant la collection de M. Émile Gavet (Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, May 31-June 9, 1897), 58, as Tête de Chérubin.

Allan Marquand, Giovanni della Robbia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1920), 26, as Frieze of Cherub Heads with Cornucopias.

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