{"data": {"id": 104769, "accession_number": "1923.1096", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Bella Donna Charger, c. 1520\u201330. Italy, Papal States, Deruta. Tin-glazed earthenware with yellow and blue lustre (maiolica); diameter: 8.6 x 41.3 cm (3 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1923.1096", "current_location": "118 Italian Renaissance", "title": "Bella Donna Charger", "creation_date": "c. 1520\u201330", "creation_date_earliest": 1520, "creation_date_latest": 1530, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Italy, Papal States, Deruta"], "technique": "tin-glazed earthenware with yellow and blue lustre (maiolica)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Ceramic", "measurements": "Diameter: 8.6 x 41.3 cm (3 3/8 x 16 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"diameter": {"height": 0.086, "height_inch": 3, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 0.413, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "with inscription:  IV BLLIA BELLA", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": [{"description": "No existing exhibition history", "opening_date": null}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "(M. & R. Stora, Paris).", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Scholars believe that chargers such as these were given as marriage gifts or in memory of someone who had died.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Ceremonial plates decorated with a <em>bella donna</em> (beautiful woman) feature half-length portraits of a young woman surrounded by scrolled banners. Many <em>bella donna</em> plates were informed by the frescos of Renaissance painters Pietro Perugino and Pinturicchio.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60778944"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1923.1096-bella-donna-charger"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 91", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n115"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 91", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n115"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 102", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n122"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, fig. 47", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1096", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1096/1923.1096_web.jpg", "width": "904", "height": "893", "filesize": "673895", "filename": "1923.1096_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1096/1923.1096_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3357", "filesize": "8338926", "filename": "1923.1096_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1096/1923.1096_full.tif", "width": "4792", "height": "4731", "filesize": "68057524", "filename": "1923.1096_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1096/1923.1096_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "904", "height": "893", "filesize": "511118"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1096/1923.1096_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "3360", "filesize": "7233183"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1096/1923.1096_alt0_full.tif", "width": "4634", "height": "4580", "filesize": "63710036"}, "date_created": "2008-05-06T13:39:31", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Purchase from the J. 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