A FAENZA TROMPE L'OEIL FOOTED DISH

CIRCA 1550-70

Details

A FAENZA TROMPE L'OEIL FOOTED DISH
CIRCA 1550-70
Of lobed and moulded crespina form with a low foot, the upper side filled with naturalistically-modelled pears, figs, nuts, vegetables and a shell (restoration to foot and rim, minor restoration to some fruit)
9½ in. (24 cm.) wide

Literature

Ettore A. Sannipoli et al., La Via Della Ceramica Tra Umbria e Marche, Maioliche Rinascimentali da Collezioni Private, Gubbio, Exhibition Catalogue, Città di Castello, 2010, p. 320.

Exhibited

Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, La Via della Ceramica tra Umbria e Marche, June 2010 - January 2011, no. 4·11.

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Lot Essay

For the similar example in the British Museum, see Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. I, p. 157, no. 101, where they suggest that it seems likely that pieces of this type 'were table decorations reminiscent of the fruit-filled baskets, garlanded armorial roundels or lids to jars made by the Della Robbia workshop'. The British Museum example appears to be unique as a marked example (for Enea Utili), and three dated examples published by Carmen Ravenelli Guidotti are cited. Another two examples are illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, pp. 72-73, nos. 288 and 289.

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