THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY

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A CENTRAL ITALIAN ISTORIATO CRESPINA
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
Painted with a bearded man accompanied by Pallas Athena and a winged figure (Iris?), with trees to their right, a fortified town on a rocky coastline below them to the left, the gadroons on the underside edged with blue lines (broken through from 10 to 6 o'clock, restuck and stapled on reverse, very small associated losses along break, larger area of flaking to rocks on coast, slight chipping and flaking to rim, foot with large loss)
9 3/16 in. (23.3 cm.) wide at widest point

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Lot Essay

This crespina forms part of a group of objects almost certainly decorated by the same hand, including a coppa in the Louvre depicting Adam and Eve (Louvre Inv. OA 1555), a coppa depicting Guidon (Louvre Inv. MR 2215), both illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 291, nos. 910 and 911, and attributed to Rimini; an alzata depicting Venus and Bacchus in the Museo del Vino, Torgiano, and it has been suggested that the basin formerly in the Bernal and Fortnum Collections which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (illustrated by Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1940, no. 909), is also by the same painter.

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