Dish (tondino)

Italian

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

This small lustered bowl is typical of ceramics made in Gubbio in the 1520s and 1530s. The meaning of the boy playing with a pinwheel is uncertain, but it relates to imagery found on birth trays.

Artist

Italian

Date

ca. 1530

Medium

Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

Culture

Italian, Gubbio

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975