CIRCA 1560

Details

A small Antwerp maiolica albarello
CIRCA 1560
Decorated with stylised foliage within a band of triangular motifs in blue, yellow, ochre and manganese-red
14.1 cm. high

Provenance

Sale Collection Frans Claes, 'De Gulden Spoor', auction house Gruter,
Antwerp, 27 November- 1 December 1933, lot 1334.
The present owner.

Literature

B. Rackham, Early Netherlands Majolica with special reference to the tiles at the Vyne in Hampshire, London, 1926, illustrated and discussed.

Exhibited

On loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954-July 2004.

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 Exhibition Catalogue, Catalogus Antwerps Plateel, Tentoonstelling Fries Museum Leeuwarden, 18 December 1971- 29 January 1972, ill. 40, p. 45 for a related ointment pot excavated in the courtyard of the Osterrieth Huis located on the Meir, Antwerp.
Frans Claes (1860-1933) was the curator of the Steen and Vleeshuis Museums, Antwerp.

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