c. 1876
Vase showing scenes of the Temptation of Adam and Eve (front) and Lot and His Family (back)
Fabbrica Benucci e Latti was one of four Italian factories that exhibited maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware) at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. The pieces produced by these Italian factories resembled Renaissance maiolica, in form and decoration, more than the majolica (lead-glazed earthenware) being produced elsewhere in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century. Charles Wyllys Elliott, in his Pottery and Porcelain of 1878, said, "A very large show of Italian maiolica of to-day was made at the Centennial Exhibition. . . . What did we find there? Hundreds of imitations."
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