id: 122326 accession number: 1942.625 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.625 updated: 2022-02-19 10:00:34.822000 Plate with Arms of the Pucci Family, 1532. Francesco Xanto Avelli (Italian, 1487?–1544?). Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); diameter: 3.2 x 19.4 cm (1 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.625 title: Plate with Arms of the Pucci Family title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1532 creation date earliest: 1532 creation date latest: 1532 current location: 118 Italian Renaissance creditline: Bequest of John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Italy, Urbino technique: tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco Xanto Avelli (Italian, 1487?–1544?) - maker --- measurements: Diameter: 3.2 x 19.4 cm (1 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed: F(rancesco) X(anto) A(velli) (da) R(ovigo) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection opening date: 1942-11-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * No legacy exhibitions. --- PROVENANCE John L. Severance [1863-1936]. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: A more contemporary head of the family, Emilio Pucci, became famous as a fashion designer in the 1960s and 1970s. digital description: Italian nobles of the 1500s often expressed their wealth, social status, and sophistication by ordering large sets of maiolica that sometimes carried their coats of arms or even likenesses, usually in profile as in portraits of the period. The Pucci family was a powerful noble household in Renaissance Florence who were at times quite close allies of the Medici, a prominent banking family. wall description: The Pucci family was a powerful noble household in Renaissance Florence who were at times quite close allies of the Medici, a prominent banking family. A more contemporary head of the family, Emilio Pucci, became famous as a fashion designer in the 1960s and 1970s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS John Long Severance Art Collection Photographs: Furniture, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: Mentioned: p. 285-293; Reproduced: p. 297 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceFurniture/page/n284/mode/1up Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. page number: Mentioned: p. 46, cat. no. 94 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n50 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.625/1942.625_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.625/1942.625_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.625/1942.625_full.tif