A CANTIGALLI MAIOLICA LARGE CIRCULAR DISH painted in colours enriched in copper lustre after Luca Signorelli with a detail of The Preaching and fall of Antichrist, within a yellow line rim (minor glaze chips to rim), the reverse with blue cockerel mark and script, late 19th Century

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A CANTIGALLI MAIOLICA LARGE CIRCULAR DISH painted in colours enriched in copper lustre after Luca Signorelli with a detail of The Preaching and fall of Antichrist, within a yellow line rim (minor glaze chips to rim), the reverse with blue cockerel mark and script, late 19th Century
19¾in. (50.3cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

An adaptation of a detail from the Monte Oliveto alfresco in the Duomo di Orvieto. Cf. 'Signorelli des Meisters Gemälde', Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, Stuttgart, 1927, pps. 91 and 92. The figures on the plate are placed within the colonnaded building which is painted on another part of the fresco

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