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

University of London

The book includes an essay by the curator and a chronology of the artist's life and work

Mario Torelli

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