Lot Essay
Frans Claes (1860-1933) was the curator of the Steen and Vleeshuis
Museums, Antwerp.
Museums, Antwerp.
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CIRCA 1550
Details
An Antwerp maiolica blue and white plate
CIRCA 1550
Decorated with a central rosette surrounded by wavy motifs (repaired)
21 cm. diam.
CIRCA 1550
Decorated with a central rosette surrounded by wavy motifs (repaired)
21 cm. diam.
Provenance
Archaeological find, Prinsenstraat 30, Antwerp
Sale Collection Frans Claes, 'De Gulden Spoor', auction house Gruter, Antwerp, 27 November- 1 December 1933, lot 1325.
The present owner.
Sale Collection Frans Claes, 'De Gulden Spoor', auction house Gruter, Antwerp, 27 November- 1 December 1933, lot 1325.
The present owner.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Catalogus Antwerps Plateel, Tentoonstelling Fries Museum Leeuwarden, 18 December 1971- 29 January 1972, ill. 53, p. 49.
Exhibited
On loan to the museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1937-1980.
Special notice
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