Patanazzi family
The Patanazzi family, a workshop dynasty in the Italian maiolica tradition, produced tin-glazed earthenware decorated with mythological and figurative subjects drawn from classical antiquity. Their pieces belong to the late Renaissance world of Urbino and its surrounding centres, where painted pottery served both as tableware and as display objects. This collection holds a single example of their craft, the Inkstand with Apollo and the Muses, dated within the 1580s and executed in maiolica.
1 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)
