Lot 10
10
A LUSTRED PIATTO DA POMPA

Details
A LUSTRED PIATTO DA POMPA
DERUTA, 1520-1530

Lustred in blue and gold on a white ground with the portrait bust of a Roman hero to left, a foliate letter C at the left, within a scale-pattern surround, the rim with alternating radiating panels of scales, verticle geometric patterns and large leaves, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 79.6.2 (minor rim and footrim chips, the footrim pierced for hanging, the rim shaved slightly possibly to fit a frame)--16½in. (41.9cm.) diam.
Provenance
Winter Collection
Anonymous sale, Sotheby & Co., London, June 29, 1964, lot ? ($ to ?)
George Farrow; Sotheby & Co., London, June 10, 1969, lot 165 ($$ to ?) Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, July 2, 1979, lot 9
With Bernheimer, Munich
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 40

Lot Essay

Cf. Giacomotti, no. 556 for a plate in the collection of the musée du Louvre pounced from the same cartoon as the present example.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r78 dated December 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 340 and 500 years ago (1485-1645).