LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Details

A Venetian inscribed shallow circular bowl
Late 15th/early 16th Century
Of ogee profile, the radially ribbed underside below a trailed thread and with an applied footring and kick-in base, the border with a wide gilt band etched with the inscription TIMETE DEUM EDATE ILLI ONOREM beneath an everted folded rim
76 in. (18.5 cm.) diam.

Literature

Baumgartner 1995, pp. 31 and 91, no. 172.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, May-September 1995, no. 172.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Four other inscribed bowls are known. Three published in the literature: one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see Honey 1964, pl. 32C), another in the British Museum, London (see Tait 1979, p. 38, no. 28) and a third in the Wrttembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart (formerly in the Wolf Collection, see Klesse/Mayr 1987, no. 8), whilst the fourth, as yet unpublished, is in the Louvre Museum, Paris (Inv. OA1119). Three of the bowls mentioned, as with the present example, all have their Latin inscriptions engraved in capital letters in the 'antique' on a gilt band applied to the exterior of the lip; only on the Stuttgart bowl is the inscription executed in such a manner that it is able to be read from the interior.

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