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| Ceramic pitcher (end 14thC) from Tuscany?, Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Triumph of Love earthenware plate (15thC) from Northern Italy at Rouen Ceramic Museum. Rouen, France. | Majolica albarello drug jar with scene of mating donkeys (suggesting aphrodisiac? storage) (late 15th C) from Faenza or Pesaro, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Ceramic nativity (1509) by Giovanni di Nicola Manzoni from Tuscany, Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. |
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| Majolica dish with portrait of young man (1470-90) from Deruta, Italy & drug jar (c1420-50) from Florence at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Majolica dish with coat of arms held by sphinx (1500-30) from Deruta, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware plate with mounted knight design (c1500--50) from Deruta & Gubbio, Italy at Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, PA. | Earthenware navel dish with profile of woman (c1520) from Deruta, Perugia, Italy at Rouen Ceramic Museum. Rouen, France. |
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| Majolica dish with scene of two lovers (1520-50) from Deruta, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Tondino earthenware plate (c1520-30) Italy, Montelupo at Château de Clos Lucé. Amboise, France. | Earthenware plate with procession painting (1525-50) from Sienna, Italy at Rouen Ceramic Museum. Rouen, France. | Majolica dish with story of Icarus (c1530) from Urbino or Gubbio, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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| Ceramic plate painted with Metamorphosis of Actaeon (1533) by Francesco Xanto Avelli from Gubbio, Italy at Petit Palace Museum. Paris, France. | Majolica dish with Fall of Troy (1535) from Urbino, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Majolica dish with scene rape of Europa (1537) from Faenza, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Earthenware plate with Neptune creating the horse (1539) from Urbino, Italy at Rouen Ceramic Museum. Rouen, France. |
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| Ceramic apothecary pitcher for Orsini-Colonna type violet honey (c1540-50) from Castelli, Italy at Bavarian National Museum. Munich, Germany. | Ceramic bowl of fake fruit (1540-80) from Montelupo, Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Helmeted warrior "Narone" on Italian earthenware dish (c1540) at Château de Clos Lucé. Amboise, France. | Italian drug jar (c1540-50) tin-glazed earthenware at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. |
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| Jupiter, Junon & Io on Italian majolica platter (1544) by Francesco Durantino at Blois Chateau. Blois, France. | Majolica charger with Psyche's Father Consulting the Oracle (c1550-70) from Italy at Legion of Honor Museum. San Francisco, CA. | Ceramic snake gourde (16thC?) from northern Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Ceramic bottle as eagle with two heads (16thC) from northern Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. |
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| Ceramic pharmacy jars (early 16thC) from Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. | Ceramic jug for oil (1550-60) from Italy at Musées des Arts Décoratifs. Lyon, France. | Majolica (wedding?) jug (1st quarter 16th C) from Cafaggiolo or Montelupo, Italy at Gardiner Museum. Toronto, ON. | Ceramic pharmacy jar (1555) by workshop of Ludovico & Angelo Picchi from Casteldurante, Italy at Sèvres National Ceramic Museum. Paris, France. |
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| Ceramic plate painted with Birth of Adonis by Myrrha (c1560) by workshop of Fontana from Urbino, Italy at Petit Palace Museum. Paris, France. | Majolica plate with arms of Cardinal Alexandre Farnese (1574-89) at Blois Chateau. Blois, France. | Italian cruet for oil & vinegar (1575-87) by Medici Porcelain Manuf. at Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA. | Majolica cooling bowl (1576) by Don Pino of Faenza, Italy at Bavarian National Museum. Munich, Germany. |
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| Earthenware pot with cover with town scene (c1750) from Castelli, Italy at Rouen Ceramic Museum. Rouen, France. | Ceramic bust of man in Renaissance dress (19thC) by Angelo Minghetti of Italy at Blois Chateau. Blois, France. | Ceramic female facial relief (19thC) from Italy at Chateau D'Ussé. Ussé, France. | Ceramic female facial relief (19thC) from Italy at Chateau D'Ussé. Ussé, France. |
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| Ceramic female facial relief (19thC) from Italy at Chateau D'Ussé. Ussé, France. | Ceramic female facial relief (19thC) from Italy at Chateau D'Ussé. Ussé, France. | Ceramic female facial relief (19thC) from Italy at Chateau D'Ussé. Ussé, France. | Ceramic vase (c1900-06) by Galileo Chini for L'Arte della Ceramica, Florence, Italy & red glass vase (c1880-1920) by unknown in Murano, Italy at Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto, ON. |
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| Italian ceramics collection at Gillette Castle State Park. East Haddam, CT. | Porcelain jug (1750-5) from Capodimonte Naples at National Museum of Wales. Cardiff, Wales. |
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