TWO PAVIA MAIOLICA DISHES

CIRCA 1700, MANGANESE AF MONOGRAM BELOW A CROWN, MALTESE CROSS AND CROSSED PALMS

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TWO PAVIA MAIOLICA DISHES
CIRCA 1700, MANGANESE AF MONOGRAM BELOW A CROWN, MALTESE CROSS AND CROSSED PALMS
Painted in blue, yellow, brown, green and grey, one with a statue of Minerva seated on a column holding a shield and sceptre, within a classical arch and with figures in the foreground, the other similarly painted with a statue of Jupiter, wearing an oak leaf crown and holding a branch of oak leaves, the reverse of each painted with scattered brown ferns, some minor chipping and retouching to rims, slight scratching to enamels
15 in. (14.7 cm.) diameter (2)

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Please note that the correct size of this lot is 15 in. (38 cm.) diameter, not 15 in. (14.7) cm. as written in the catalogue.

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Lot Essay

A similarly decorated plate bearing the AF monogram from the Rampini pottery, which may refer to the initials of either the painter Siro Antonio Africa or his nephew Siro Domenico Africa, is discussed in Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. II, p. 564, pl. 352.

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