Plate

CultureItalian

Dateca. 1525

MediumTin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

DimensionsOverall: 2 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (6.35 × 39.37 cm)

Credit LineGift of Robert Lehman

Object number46-88

On View

Not on view

Collections

Architecture, Design and Decorative Arts

Terms

DescriptionBorder of rinceaux, cornucopias, etc. in blue, yellow, green, orange, on cream ground. Center: The Annunciation in vaulted room.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Italian Majolica: XV Century, Fogg Art Museum, Boston, January 15-March 1, 1940, no. 544.1939.

University of Kansas, Museum of Art. April-June 1956, no cat.

Detroit Institute of Arts. "Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600," November 17, 1958-January 6, 1959, no. 101.

Des Moines Art Center, Junior Art Museum. "Castle on the Grand," November 26, 1961-February 6, 1962, no cat.

Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis. "The Nativity," December 1, 1963-January 5, 1964, unnumbered.

Indiana University Art Museum. "Italian Maiolica in Midwestern Collections," September 4-October 8, 1977, no. 36.

Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK. "Gloria dell'Arte: A Renaissance Perspective," October 28, 1979-January 27, 1980, no. 131.

Origins: Collecting to Create the Nelson-Atkins, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 14, 2021-March 6, 2022.

Provenance

Alfred Pringsheim (1850-1941), Munich, by 1939 [1];

Purchased at his sale, The Renowned Collection of Superb Italian Majolica, The Property of Dr. Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, Sotheby & Co., London, June 8, 1939, lot 131, through Julius Goldschmidt Galleries, London, by Robert Lehman (1891-1969), New York, no. C149, 1939-1946 [2];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.

NOTES:

[1] Otto von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, vol. 3 (Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1914), no. 151. Alfred Pringsheim was a German Jewish collector. During Kristallnacht, in November 1938, the Nazi SS seized Pringsheim’s majolica collection from his home in Munich. It was stored in the annex to the Bayerisches National Museum, Munich. In March 1939, the German Ministry of Trade authorized export of Pringsheim's majolica collection to London for auction at Sotheby's, provided that 80% of the proceeds up to £ 20,000 and 70% of the remainder be paid to the German Gold Discount Bank in foreign currency. Pringsheim was to receive the remaining proceeds. In exchange, Pringsheim and his wife were allowed to emigrate to Switzerland. See Timothy Wilson, "Alfred Pringsheim and his Collection of Italian Maiolica," in Otto von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim, augmented reprint with articles by Tjark Hausman, Carmen Ravanelli-Guidotti and Timothy Wilson, Ferrara 1994, vol. 3, pp. 85-87. After the war, the Pringsheim heirs received restitution of the sale proceeds paid to the Reichsbank pursuant to a settlement agreement with the German government. See Minutes of a closed session of the Reparation Claims Office I for Upper Bavaria, Munich, March 11, 1955, Staatsarchiv München, Wiedergutmachungsbehörde Oberbayern, WB 1a 2407, copy in NAMA curatorial files.

[2] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Papers, box 82, folder 13. Lehman lent this dish to the Fogg Art Museum in Boston from December 12, 1939-April 28, 1942.

Published References

Otto von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, vol. 3 (Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff’s Uitgevers-Maatschappij, 1914), no. 151, (repro.).

O. Von Falke, “Siena oder Detuta,” in Pantheon: Monatsschrift für Freunde und Sammler der Kunst , vol. 4 (München: F. Bruckmann, 1929), pp. 334-368 (repro.).

The Renowned Collection of Superb Italian Majolica, The Property of Dr. Alfred Pringsheim of Munich, Sotheby & Co., London, June 7, 1939, lot 131, (repro.).

J. Chompret. Répertoire De La Majolique Italienne, vol. 1 (Paris: Les Éditions Nomis, 1949) 42.

J. Chompret. Répertoire De La Majolique Italienne, vol. 2 (Paris: Les Éditions Nomis, 1949) 26 (repro.).

Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600 exh. cat. (Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1958), 47, 58 (repro.).

Brooks Memorial Art Gallery. The Nativity. exh. cat (Memphis, Tennessee, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, 1963), 3 (repro.).

Cole, Bruce, and Indiana University, Bloomington. Art Museum. Italian Maiolica from Midwestern Collections: Indiana University Art Museum, September 4-October 8, 1977 / Bruce Cole. exh. cat (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Art Museum Publication, 1977), pp. 76-77 (repro.)..

Philbrook Art Center. Gloria Dell'arte : A Renaissance Perspective, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 28, 1979-January 27, 1980. exh. cat, (Tulsa, Okla.: Philbrook Art Center, 1979), pp. 65-66, (repro.).

J. Chompret. Répertoire De La Majolique Italienne / Par Le Dr. J. Chompret, vol. 1. (Milano: Edizioni San Gottardo, 1986), 42.

J. Chompret. Répertoire De La Majolique Italienne / Par Le Dr. J. Chompret, vol. 2. (Milano: Edizioni San Gottardo, 1986) 26 (repro.).

Otto von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim, augmented reprint with articles by Tjark Hausman, Carmen Ravanelli-Guidotti and Timothy Wilson, Ferrara 1994, vol. 3, no. 328 (151), repro. plate CLXXVI.

Albis, Elisalex d'Mélanges: en souvenir d'Elisalex d'Albis 1939-1998.( Torino: L'Atelier Rosier, 1999), pp 22-26, (repro.).

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