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A large Andrea Della Robbia-style tin-glazed earthenware polychrome circular armorial plaque

CIRCA 1850

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A large Andrea Della Robbia-style tin-glazed earthenware polychrome circular armorial plaque
Circa 1850
The centre with the episcopal coat-of-arms (Stemma) of a French bishop in relief, depicting a large shield with five bars slanting to the left, applied with an escutcheon enclosing three Valois fleurs-de-lis, flanked by tassels, within a high swag of fruit enclosing: a bunch of grapes, lemons, pinecones, gherkins or zucchini, and leaves, surmounted by a bishop's or cardinal's hat, within a broad metal ring for hanging (restored)
62 cm. diam.

Provenance

E. Gutmann, Berlin.
F.B.E. Gutmann, Heemstede.
With J.W. Böhler, Munich, 1942.
With K. Haberstock, Berlin, 1942.
The Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, no. NK3166 as School of L. della Robbia) until restituted to Gutmann's heirs in 2002.

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Lot Essay

Andrea della Robbia (1435-1528) was a member of a family of Florentine Renaissance sculptors, who were the first to use a ceramic medium for sculpture and gave their name to a type of large tin-glazed earthenware. Andrea, assisted by his son Giovanni (1469-1529), devoted himself exclusively to work in tin-glazed earthenware and developed the full range of this medium for decorative sculpture. Della Robbia reliefs became very popular in the middle of the 19th century when reproductions proliferated. For the chief authority on the work of the della Robbia see A. Marquand, Robbia heraldry, Princeton, 1914, and Andrea della Robbia, Princeton, 1922.

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