Lot Essay
This small tondino is one of the twenty-three scodellini listed in the palazzo Salviati in 1583, see the footnote to lot 30.
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CIRCA 1550-59, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF GUIDO DURANTINO
Details
AN URBINO ARMORIAL TONDINO FROM THE SALVIATI PAESI SERVICE
CIRCA 1550-59, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF GUIDO DURANTINO
Painted with thatched buildings and towers before a lake with distant buildings on the far shore, with mountains beyond, the border centred by an escutcheon bearing the Salviati coat-of-arms against the sky, within a blue line and yellow band rim, the reverse with a double concentric yellow band border and two central yellow bands (broken through left-hand side and restuck, associated small losses filled and very slight overpainting along breaks, chipping to rim, loss to painting and glaze at 6 o'clock)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1550-59, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF GUIDO DURANTINO
Painted with thatched buildings and towers before a lake with distant buildings on the far shore, with mountains beyond, the border centred by an escutcheon bearing the Salviati coat-of-arms against the sky, within a blue line and yellow band rim, the reverse with a double concentric yellow band border and two central yellow bands (broken through left-hand side and restuck, associated small losses filled and very slight overpainting along breaks, chipping to rim, loss to painting and glaze at 6 o'clock)
7 in. (17.8 cm.) diam.
Literature
Giuliana Gardelli, op. cit., 1987, pp. 118-119, no. 48.
Exhibited
Urbino, Palazzo Ducale, July - September 1987
Brought to you by
Dominic Simpson