Maker/Artist
Giunta di Tugio
Florentine ceramicist, active 1419-1450
The young Giunta di Tugio trained in Florence in the workshop of his father, Tugio di Giunta, who was also a potter. Di Tugio eventually took over the workshop when his father died, and he managed it for the next thirty years. Di Tugio usually signed his work with a six-pointed asterisk, a mark inherited from his father. Around 1431 he apparently altered the asterisk mark by surrounding it with dots so that it resembled a flower. The Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova gave di Tugio one of his most important commissions. In 1430 and 1431, he produced nearly one thousand drug containers for the hospital. This order was decisive for the workshop; it increased di Tugio's reputation enormously and made him a wealthy man.
