Vase showing scenes of the Temptation of Adam and Eve (front) and Lot and His Family (back)

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Vase showing scenes of the Temptation of Adam and Eve (front) and Lot and His Family (back)

c. 1876

After designs for the Vatican loggia by Raphael (Raffaello Santi) (Italian (active central Italy), 1483–1520) Made by Fabbrica Benucci e Latti, Pesaro, Italy (1814–?)

Fabbrica Benucci e Latti was one of four Italian factories that exhibited maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. The pieces produced by these Italian factories resembled Renaissance maiolica, in form and decoration, more than the majolica (lead-glazed earthenware) being produced elsewhere in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Charles Wyllys Elliott, in his Pottery and Porcelain of 1878, said, "A very large show of Italian maiolica of to-day was made at the Centennial Exhibition. . . . What did we find there? Hundreds of imitations."

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Object Details

Titles:

Vase showing scenes of the Temptation of Adam and Eve (front) and Lot and His Family (back)

Date:

c. 1876

Artists:

After designs for the Vatican loggia by Raphael (Raffaello Santi) (Italian (active central Italy), 1483–1520) Made by Fabbrica Benucci e Latti, Pesaro, Italy (1814–?)

Medium:

Tin-glazed earthenware

Dimensions:

18 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (47 × 24.1 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

The General Hector Tyndale Memorial Collection, 1897

Accession Number:

1897-554

Geography:

Made in Pesaro, Italy, Europe

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