Keywords: Workshop of the Patanazzi family - Ewer Basin with an Allegorical Figure of Peace (?) - Walters 481509.jpg This basin has been attributed to the Patanazzi workshop a group of four family members who succeeded the Fontana workshop in the 1560s as the most prominent maiolica painters in Urbino The Patanazzi are credited with the introduction of the kind of decorative scheme we see here a central allegorical figure surrounded by bands of varying widths featuring patterns of decorative grotesques The olive branch held by this woman is a traditional attribute of peace ca 1580 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 6 46 accession number 48 1509 28356 De Courmont Collection date and mode of acqusition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 place of origin Urbino Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Patanazzi workshop Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Workshop of the Patanazzi family - Ewer Basin with an Allegorical Figure of Peace (?) - Walters 481509.jpg This basin has been attributed to the Patanazzi workshop a group of four family members who succeeded the Fontana workshop in the 1560s as the most prominent maiolica painters in Urbino The Patanazzi are credited with the introduction of the kind of decorative scheme we see here a central allegorical figure surrounded by bands of varying widths featuring patterns of decorative grotesques The olive branch held by this woman is a traditional attribute of peace ca 1580 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 6 46 accession number 48 1509 28356 De Courmont Collection date and mode of acqusition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1908 place of origin Urbino Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Patanazzi workshop Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review |