Tondo
after Andrea della Robbia (Florence 1435 - Florence 1525/8)
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Maiolica
Measurements
10.5 ins (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Shaw's Corner, Hertfordshire
NT 1274590
Summary
A maiolica tondo, copy of one by Andrea della Robbia in the Ospedali degli Innocenti in Florence. A child, lower body in blue and white swadling clothes, upper body white, arms outstretched, in high relief on blue ground within garland of flowers and fruit in relief.
Provenance
Bequest of George Bernard Shaw, 1950
Makers and roles
after Andrea della Robbia (Florence 1435 - Florence 1525/8) , designer after Andrea della Robbia (Florence 1435 - Florence 1525/8) , artist