Plate with the Name "Maria" (c. 1437): Art, History and Details

Plate with the Name "Maria" (c. 1437) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Large ornamental plates in this Valencian style became so renowned that personalized examples were ordered not only by Spanish patrons, but also by others in Italy and France. The heraldry and name displayed on this plate suggest that it might commemorate the wedding in 1437 of Marie de Bourbon and Jean, Duke of Calabria.

Object facts

• Title: Plate with the Name "Maria"
• Date: c. 1437
• Culture: Spain, Valencia
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: tin-glazed earthenware, gold lustre
• Dimensions: Diameter: 46.7 cm (18 3/8 in.); Overall: 5.8 x 47 cm (2 5/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
• Collection: MED - Renaissance
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1944.292

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foote, Helen. "A Gold-Luster Dish." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 4 (Aprile 1945): 46-47.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

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