Lot 12
12
A PIATTO DA POMPA

Details
A PIATTO DA POMPA
DERUTA, CIRCA 1515

Painted on a white ground in blue, yellow, green and ochre with the portrait of a young Roman to left, the rim with alternating panels of scale and trellis patterns and a stylized plant, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 82.3.6 (restored cracks, rim chips, edges worn, test drill holes filled)--14 3/8in. (36.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Mario Bellini
With Cyril Humphris, London
Literature
Bellini and Conti, p. 128, fig. B
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 39, illus.

Lot Essay

Cf. Rackham, Catalogue, (V&A), no. 430 for a dish inscribed fatto in diruta painted by the same hand as the present example.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s32 dated January 1986 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 330 and 500 years ago (1486-1656).