CIRCA 1500

Details

A Venetian enamelled and gilt low standing bowl
Circa 1500
The centre to the shallow circular bowl enamelled with iron-red, blue and white dots and enriched in gilding with a stylized flowerhead surrounded by moulded gadroons enriched in iron-red, blue and gilding beneath a band of enamelled dot and gilt scale ornament, the everted folded rim applied with a dark-blue filigree thread, the conical foot with upturned folded rim applied with a similar filigree thread (some rubbing to enamels and gilding)
9 in. (23 cm.) diam.

Literature

Baumgartner 1995, pp. 19 and 82, no. 161.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, May-September 1995, no. 161.

Special notice

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

Lot Essay

Few standing bowls decorated in this unusual and attractive manner using a combination of red and blue enamels and gold are recorded in the literature: see Buckley 1939, pl. 22, no. 130 and Schmidt 1927, pl. 7A for the two examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the latter with the centre painted with a dragon in a landscape; for another in a private collection see Peter 1988, no.1 and for a variant example, without the gold decoration, in the Museo Civico de Brescia see Venice 1982, p. 85, no. 77.

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