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Storage Jar (Vaso a Palla)
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Storage Jar (Vaso a Palla)

Domenego da Venezia (Italian), maker · c. 1560–80 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

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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 could be painted.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineStorage Jar (Vaso a Palla), c. 1560–80. Circle of Domenego da Venezia (Italian). Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); average: 25.4 cm (10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection, 1939.178
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