Plate (tondino)
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
Dimensions
Diameter: 8 5/16 in. (21.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.1111
Tags
BooksWomen
About the Artist
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1500–1550
**Maestro Giorgio Andreoli: The Luster Maestro of Gubbio** Giorgio di Pietro Andreoli, known as Maestro Giorgio or Mastro Giorgio da Gubbio, was born between 1465 and 1470 in Intra on Lake Maggiore, the son of potter Pietro Andreoli. After spending his youth in Pavia—where he was noted in documents as "son of Pietro da Pavia"—his family fled following the 1476 assassination of Duke Galeazzo Sforz...