An Italian Istoriato Tazza

CIRCA 1550, PERHAPS RIMINI

细节
An Italian Istoriato Tazza
Circa 1550, perhaps Rimini
Painted with Saint Jerome seated with his lion before a cave, his cardinal's hat at his feet, looking out on an extensive lakeland with bridges and thatched towers and rocky outcrops and distant mountains in blue (one large and numerous chips to rim, foot lacking)
10¼ in. (26cm.) diam.

拍品专文

The unusual depiction of St. Jerome in clothes treated in a very conservative almost late Gothic manner suggest a North European graphic source for the iconography of this dish. The strange perspective and anomalous view point from which the landscape is seen would seem to point to one of the minor centres of istoriato production. See Gaetano Ballardini, Corpus della Maiolica Italiana, vol. II, no. 106 for a dish, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, with a similar style of painting.