Deep Dish

Unknown

1430–1460 · Tin-glazed earthenware · The Cloisters

This dish (or brasero) comes from a lavish ensemble of tableware created for the delle Agli family of Florence. The family's arms, featuring a rampant wolf, appears at the center. (The purplish color is as close as the potters could get to the prescribed red.) The arms are ringed by garlic, a playful reference to the consonance between the family name and the Italian word for garlic (aglio). The scrolling vine pattern of the border is recognizable as bryony.

Artist

Unknown

Date

1430–1460

Medium

Tin-glazed earthenware

Culture

Spanish

Department

The Cloisters

Credit line

The Cloisters Collection, 1956