Virgin and Angels Adoring the Christ Child by Della Robbia in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2009

Decorative Arts and Sculpture

Virgin and Angels Adoring the Christ Child
Made in Florence, Italy, Europe

c. 1460-70s

Luca Della Robbia, Italian (active Florence), 1400 - 1482. Perhaps assisted by Andrea Della Robbia, Italian (active Florence), 1435 - 1525. Frame attributed to Andrea Della Robbia, Italian (active Florence), 1435 - 1525.

Glazed earthenware
Diameter: 65 3/4 inches (167 cm)

* Gallery 251, European Art 1500-1850, second floor

W1930-1-64a,b
Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund from the Edmond Foulc Collection, 1930

Label:

Round reliefs of the Adoration were sometimes placed in Florentine Renaissance bedchambers. If such was the original location of this masterpiece, the patron must have been an important one. The collector Edmond Foulc added the decorative frame in the late nineteenth century.

Text from: www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/104462.html