A Deruta blue and gold lustre betrothal charger

CIRCA 1520

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A Deruta blue and gold lustre betrothal charger
Circa 1520
The centre with a youth in a slashed suit about to embrace a girl on a terrace flanked by flowering plants and rocks, within an ovolo surround, the a quartieri border with alternate panels of scale-pattern and scrolling foliage, the footrim pierced for hanging (minor chipping to edge of well and rim)
16 in. (41.8 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Imbert Collection, Rome, no. 655.
Charles Damiron, Lyons, no. 102.

Lot Essay

See the polychrome example with the same subject from the Scott-Taggart Collection, presumably taken from the same print source, sold in these Rooms on 14 April 1980, lot 10, and the version of this subject on a lustred Deruta dish offered in these Rooms on 3 June 1992, lot 287.

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