CIRCA 1580-1600, PERHAPS PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED BOWL
CIRCA 1580-1600, PERHAPS PATANAZZI WORKSHOP
The interior painted with a woman seated with a child within a draped interior, the border and exterior with bands of grotteschi, masks, birds, vases and bouquets, within yellow and ochre hatched borders (section of rim and one handle cracked and restored, associated hairline cracking)
8 in. (20.3 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This bowl may have been part of an 'accouchement' set, used to serve broth to women after childbirth, see Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, The Howard I. and Janet H. Stein Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2001, pp. 138-140 for a similar example decorated with scenes of childbirth. An armorial example attributed to the Patanazzi workshop was sold in these Rooms on 22 April 2008, lot 38.

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