Tazza
ca. 1530–40
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 2 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (6.4 × 28.3 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
Italian, Urbino with Gubbio luster
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of V. Everit Macy, in memory of his wife, Edith Carpenter Macy, 1927
Accession Number
27.97.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the Renaissance world of Italian ceramics with *Tazza*, a masterful maiolica dish created around 1530–40 by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli the renowned lusterer from Gubbio. shallow, ornate bowl—measuring just 2½ by 11⅛ inches—was produced in Urbino, a hub of maiolica innovation, and finished with Gubbio's signature luster technique. Maiolica, tin-glazed earthenware, artists to paint vibrant colors and metallic sheens on pottery, rivaling costly silver and gold vessels for elite dining tables. Andreoli's expertise shines in the iridescent luster, a complex process involving metallic oxide...
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...