The stile bello is a pictorial style, often featuring flowers, fruit-baskets, scrolls, masks, grotesques, and/or heraldry. There are a few additional styles which are part of, or related to, the stile bello maiolica, which are set apart in the links below: maiolica alla porcellana, which imitates the decoration on Chinese porcelain; maiolica a trofei, which is decorated with military trophies; maiolica a candelieri, with a candelabra-like sense of symmetry; maiolica a raffaellesche, with many figures around the rim; and stile fiorito, the flowery style, with tiny grotesques and floral motifs.
Albarello (Met 1975.1.1027), Deruta, c. 1505-1510
Dish with David carrying the head of Goliath (Scotland A.510.4), Faenza (?), c. 1510-1540
Dish with the arms of a Medici pope (NGA 1942.9.319), Deruta, c. 1513-1534
Albarello (Met 23.166), Siena, 1515
Attributed to Maestro Giorgio Andreoli, Gubbio
Tondino (Met 1975.1.1009), Faenza, c. 1530
Dish with a wreath and a shield of arms (NGA 1942.9.342), Faenza, 1532
Attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli
Pilgrim bottle (Cleveland 1923.914), Faenza, 1540
Tile (V&A 441-1906), attributed to the workshop of Guido di Merlino, c. 1543
Dish with a checker pattern and floral sprays (Scotland A.231.3), Montelupo, second half of the 16th century
Armorial jug (Met 1975.1.1010), Montelupo, c. 1570-1580
ALLA PORCELLANA
- A plate (Christie’s Lot 2, Sale 2690), Cafaggiolo or Montelupo, c. 1500-1510
- Drug jar (Scotland A.1921.1691), Faenza (?), early 16th century
- Blue and white dish with a merchant ship (Getty 84.DE.109), Cafaggiolo, c. 1510
- Plate commemorating a marriage, with the arms of the Meuting and Hörwarth families (British Museum M&ME 1878,12-30,435), Venice, 1516
- Bowl with the arms of Altoriti and Soderini (Scotland A.510.6), Faenza, 1524
- Bowl with a trophy of armor (Scotland A.1899.129), Faenza, c. 1530-1535
- Plate with putti supporting a coat of arms (Scotland A.1956.1481), Liguria or Venice, early 17th century
- Plate with a coat of arms (Scotland A.1884.44.20), Deruta or Liguria, first half of the 17th century
A TROFEI
- Plate with a putto mask and trophies (Cleveland 1923.1088), Castel-Durante, c. 1440-1460
- Bowl with the arms of Pope Juloius II and the Manzoli of Bologna (Met 1975.1.1015), workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro, 1508
- Dish with a unicorn hunt (Scotland A.510.5), Deruta, c. 1500-1510
- Bowl (V&A C.2148-1910), Castel Durante, c. 1510-1515
- Plate with putti, trophies, and grotesques (NGA 1942.9.313), Urbino or Venice, c. 1510-1520
- Dish (V&A C.2084-1910), the Marches, c. 1520
- Bowl with the shield of the arms of Berlinghieri of Florence (V&A C.2089-1910), Faenza, c. 1520-1525
- Plate with a musical trophy and the name Camilla (V&A C.2212-1910), Urbino or Castel Durante, 1522
- Dish with a naked boy holding a scopperel (V&A C.2114-1910), Romagna or the Marches, c. 1525
- Plate (V&A C.2207-1910), Gubbio, c. 1530
- Bowl on low foot (V&A 7687-1861), Gubbio, c. 1530-1540
- Dish with an archer (Scotland A.1882.8.8), Castel Durante or Urbino, c. 1540
- Dish with cupid (Scotland A.1877.20.99), Castel Durante, c. 1540
- Drug jar (Scotland A.1957.288), Castel Durante or Deruta, mid-16th century
- Tagliere (V&A 4727-1901), Castel Durante, c. 1550
- Plate with a heraldic emblem (V&A 4383-1857), the Marches, 1550-1560
- Drug jar (Scotland A.1877.20.119), Castel Durante, 1550s
- Plate (V&A 1724-1855), Padua, 1555
A CANDELIERI A RAFFAELLESCHE STILE FIORITO
- Plate with a boar hunt (Cleveland 1942.623), Atelier of the Fontana family, Urbino, 1560
- Pilgrim bottle (V&A 8409&A-1863), attributed to the Fontana workshop, Urbino, c. 1560-1580
- Basin with Deucalion and Pyrrha (Getty 86.DE.539), Orazio Fontana or his workshop, Urbino, c. 1565-1571
- Dish with Mercury (Scotland A.510.14), Urbino, c. 1590-1610
- Dish with a warrior (Scotland A.1871.14.13), Deruta, c. 1620-1650
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