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A PIATTO DA POMPA

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A PIATTO DA POMPA
DERUTA, CIRCA 1535

Painted on a white ground in ochre, yellow green and blue with the figure of a Turk on a charging stallion, the rim with a rinceau, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 79.6.3 (rim chips, test drill holes filled)--15 7/8in. (40.4cm.) diam.

Provenance

S.V. Christie-Miller; Sotheby & Co., London, November 20, 1962,
lot 171 ($$ to ??)
Robert Strauss; Christie's, London, June 21, 1976, lot 34
With Bernheimer, Munich

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 38

Lot Essay

Cf. Museo Internationale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, ???Catalogue of its Collection???, front cover = cat. no. ?? for a piatto da pompa with the arms of Pope Paul III Farnese painted with a similar rinceau.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r79 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 520 years ago (1465-1645).