Dish (coppa amatoria)

"In Castel Durante" Painter

ca. 1530 · Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) · Robert Lehman Collection

The woman painted on this bella donna footed bowl, or coppa, is identified as "Beautiful Livia." She wears a silk velvet cap, or scufia, with a jewel at the center and a necklace of black cord, whose pendant is tucked into her bodice—fashionable attire of the period. It is one of a group of bowls celebrating women, including caterina bella, elisabetta bella, and aura bella, that seem to have been painted in Urbino or Castel Durante, and some of which were also lustered in Gubbio.

Artist

"In Castel Durante" Painter

Date

ca. 1530

Medium

Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

Culture

Italian, Castel Durante

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975