id: 104759 accession number: 1923.1088 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1088 updated: Plate with Putto, Masques, and Trophies, c. 1530–50. Italy, Urbino. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); diameter: 5.6 x 25.7 cm (2 3/16 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of M. & R. Stora 1923.1088 title: Plate with Putto, Masques, and Trophies title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1530–50 creation date earliest: 1530 creation date latest: 1550 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Gift of M. & R. Stora copyright: --- culture: Italy, Urbino technique: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 5.6 x 25.7 cm (2 3/16 x 10 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * No existing exhibition history --- PROVENANCE (M. & R. Stora, Paris, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: In combination, the arms, armor, and winged head of a cherub depicted on this plate symbolize war—a common theme in the midst of the Great Wars of Italy (1494–1559). digital description: During the Italian Renaissance of the 1400s and 1500s, nobles and merchants eager to express their wealth and sophistication ordered ceramics for dining, display, and storage. Known as maiolica, because it resembled the brightly colored ceramics from the Mediterranean island of Majorca, these ceramic vessels were covered with a tin glaze that provided an opaque white surface on which colorful decoration and coats of arms as well as mythological or literary stories could be painted. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS No existing citations page number: url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1088/1923.1088_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1088/1923.1088_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1088/1923.1088_full.tif