Terms and conditions of use
Vase
(c. 1897)
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1897
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
In 1878 Ulisse Cantagalli assumed management of his family’s ceramics factory in Florence. He began producing highly decorative wares closely imitating the style of the Italian Renaissance, especially the ceramics produced at the great Italian sixteenth-century centres of Gubbio, Deruta and Urbino. White-ground grotesque decorations adorn the body of this monumental vase, inspired by products of the sixteenth-century Patanazzi workshop in Urbino. Of very high quality, the carefully modelled figures and delicate scrolls of the painted ornament display a precision and studied sense of detail that is nineteenth-century in spirit – quite different to the freer, more painterly decoration of the sixteenth-century originals.
Artwork Details
Purchased, 1897
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