Lot 181
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AN URBINO CRESTED TONDINO the centre painted with Cupid carrying a flaming torch on a long string in a landscape before mountains within a border of wild animals, exotic birds, grottesche, pendants, drapes and beads surmounted by the crest of a pyre torch within two scrolls with the inscription ARDET ÆTERNUM for Alphonse d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (hairline crack at 6 o'clock approximately 14cm. long and associated restored rim and footrim chip), Patanazzi workshop, circa 1579

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AN URBINO CRESTED TONDINO the centre painted with Cupid carrying a flaming torch on a long string in a landscape before mountains within a border of wild animals, exotic birds, grottesche, pendants, drapes and beads surmounted by the crest of a pyre torch within two scrolls with the inscription ARDET ÆTERNUM for Alphonse d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (hairline crack at 6 o'clock approximately 14cm. long and associated restored rim and footrim chip), Patanazzi workshop, circa 1579
23cm. diam.

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This service was made for Alfonso II d'Este, duke of Ferrara and his wife, Margarita Gonzaga, probably on the occasion of their marriage in 1579

Cf. Two tondini from this service in the Wallace Collection illustrated by A.V.B. Norman, Catalogue of Ceramics I, (1976), C. 109 and C. 110. See also Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des Musées Nationaux, no. 1081 and 1082 for a basin and another plate in the Louvre and at Sèvres respectively; and Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, no. 882 for a cruet in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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