Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collections Art Glass Andrew Perchuk is deputy director

Andrew Perchuk is deputy director of the Getty Research Institute

Wealthy patrons sponsored the production of elaborate altarpieces

9 x 12 inches

Contained in this history of the "Great Sea" are the stories of the birth of Western Civilization

Detlef Mertins is an architect

Italian Ceramics: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collections Art Glass Andrew Perchuk is deputy directorCatherine Hess In 1984 the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired an exceptional collection of Italian Renaissance maiolica, or tin glazed earthenware. These often brilliantly colored objects range from an early Florentine jar with oak leaf decoration to a much later Mannerist dish with grotesque ornament. Italian Ceramics catalogues this fine collection of forty five objects spanning four hundred years, including a pair of eighteenth century candlesticks