An Urbino tazza

1570-1590

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An Urbino tazza
1570-1590
Painted most probably in the workshop of one of the Patanazzi family in blue, ochre, black, green and grey, with a central medallion of Venus and Cupid en grisaille within a band of beads, the border with two Muses seated below putti among scrollwork, the underside with three putti between dolphins among waves, the baluster knopped stem with fish among waves and bands of bead and cell-pattern ornament (broken and restored through bowl and stem, chip to foot)
10in. (25.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

The relationship between the central medallion and the surrounding beaded border is comparable to the Fitzwilliam stands; see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge (1995), nos. 429 and 430. The facial traits and particularly the treatment of the eyes are very similar. All three stands would seem to come from the same bottega.

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