AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA ISTORIATO DISH
VENICE, CIRCA 1570, WORKSHOP OF DOMENICO DA VENEZIA

Painted on a white ground in blue, yellow, green and manganese and enriched with white highlights, the shallow bowl with Moses in the desert within a yellow line rim, restored rim chip at 11 o'clock, test drill holes filled
7 5/8in. (19.4cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1979, lot 63
With Bernheimer, Munich
The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, no. 79.6.15
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and from the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, 2 September 1982 - 2 January 1983, no. 69
San Francisco, CA, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 5 July 1986-1988, no. 104

Lot Essay

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s1 dated January 1986 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 300 and 470 years ago (1516-1686).