15TH-17TH CENTURY

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Eight Italian and Spanish polychrome tiles
15TH-17TH CENTURY
Comprising: a rare Gubbio tile decorated with a star, traces of lustre, circa 1545; two Bologna-San Giacomo Maggiore-Capella Bentivoglio-type floor tiles with various stylised ornamental motifs, circa 1490; a Viterbo-Santa Maria della Peste-type floor tile decorated with a so called 'Tudor rose', circa 1470; two Napoli-Donna Regina floor tiles with the coat-of-arms of Queen Mary of Hungary; a Manises Spanish armorial tile with a foglie motifs, circa 1550; a Spanish ornamental staircase tile, 17th century (8)

Special notice

Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

See F. Quinterio, Maiolica nell' Architettura del Rinascimento Italiano, Firenze, 1988, ill. 47, p. 66 for comparable Bologna tiles and ill. 88, p. 90 for comparable Viterbo tiles; and E. Romano, La Ceramica napolitana del secolo XIII al XVIII, Faenza, 1939, for similar Napoli armorial tiles in the Museo Duca di Martina, Naples.

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