1440-1445

Details

Twelve early Spanish blue and white elongated lozenge-shaped floor tiles
1440-1445
Of the Napoli-San Giovanni a Carbonara-Capella Caraciollo-type, some enhanced in manganese-red, comprising: three with lion passants; two with female profiles; two with male profiles; two with rabbit-type animals; three with stylised floral motifs, in sizes (some repaired) (12)

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Lot Essay

See M. Gonzales Marti, Ceramica del Levante Espanol, Volume II, Barcelona & Madrid, 1952 for a graphical depiction of the tiles; and F. Quinterio, Maiolica nell' Architettura del Rinascimento
Italiano, Firenze, 1988, ill. 2, p. 39 for comparable panels in the Museo Artistico Industriale, Napoli.

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