Pharmacy jar with the Apollo Belvedere and King David
ca. 1545–50
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 10 1/4 × 8 5/8 in. (26 × 21.9 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
Italian, possibly Castelli
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.85.24
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena · 1500–1520
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...