Italian Renaissance Brought to Life through Dazzling Ceramics

The great painted dishes of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy are among the few authentic objects surviving from the Renaissance. The form and color of ceramics are as fresh today as the day five hundred or more years ago when the pieces were first fired. We see these dazzling wares looking just as they did when their potters took them from the kiln. Antique tableware has always had its own fascination; whatever we may or may not know about our forebears, we do know that they had to eat, like us, every day.