A MAIOLICA ARMORIAL OVAL DISH

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A MAIOLICA ARMORIAL OVAL DISH
AFTER THE PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

The well with central medallion depicting Julius Caesar holding an audience, the surrounding medallions depicting representations of the Four Elements each medallion enclosed within a raised cartouche. the rim with grotesschi on a cream ground, angels flanking a cartouche inscribed 'URBINI' at the top and bottom, with gadrooned rim, the underside with an armorial device of a bird standing on three mountains, a serpent around its neck, a ball in its raised right claw, the sun blazing overhead, the remains of an old catalogue description and a paper label alluding to the Cottreau sale (top section of rim repaired) ----- 24in. (61cm.) long

Provenance

Cottreau Collection, Paris

Literature

J. Chompret, Répertoire de la majolique italienne, Milan, 1986 reprint, Vol. I, p. 196, Vol. II, fig. 1053

Lot Essay

Cf. Chompret, Vol. II, fig. 1052 for the oval dish from the service commissioned by the Duke of Urbino now in the collection of the Museo Civico, Pesaro of which the present dish is a copy.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 581e76 dated August 4, 1992 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University stating that the sample tested (taken from the base) was last fired less than 100 years ago.