Details
A LUSTRED TWO-HANDLED CUP
GUBBIO, CIRCA 1530-1540
Of cylindrical form with scroll handles, raised on a flaring foot, lustred in gold and ruby and painted in blue and green on a white ground, the straight sides with concave ovals within acanthus surrounds, the lower body with triangles and dots radiating from a scale-pattern wreath, the foot with similar spiraling decoration, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 79.5.15 (crack behind one handle restored, restored chips to edge of handles, glaze chips relustred and repainted, test drill holes to footrim) --8½in. (21.6cm.) high, 10 3/8in. (26.4cm.) wide overall
Provenance
Fernand Adda; Rheims et Laurent, Paris, December 1-3, 1965, lot 594
(18,000ff)
With Cyril Humphris, London
Literature
B. Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica: Illustrated Catalogue of a Private Collection, London, 1959, no. 385, plate 171B
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 54
