Details
A TONDO
FAENZA, CIRCA 1515, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE CARICATURES
Painted in shades of blue, ochre, yellow and green and enriched with white highlights with two blacksmiths working at a forge, waering contemporary dress, the anvil resting on a tree stump, the underside a calza with concentric blue bands alternating with three ochre bands and with a Damiron collection label inscribed in red No. 39 and with paper collection label typed TR 8848/22--11in. (28cm.) diam.
FAENZA, CIRCA 1515, ATTRIBUTED TO THE PAINTER OF THE CARICATURES
Painted in shades of blue, ochre, yellow and green and enriched with white highlights with two blacksmiths working at a forge, waering contemporary dress, the anvil resting on a tree stump, the underside a calza with concentric blue bands alternating with three ochre bands and with a Damiron collection label inscribed in red No. 39 and with paper collection label typed TR 8848/22--11in. (28cm.) diam.
Provenance
Jacques Seligmann, Paris
Charles Damiron, Lyon, no. 39, Sotheby & Co., London, June 16, 1938, lot 26 (unsold)
Charles Damiron, Lyon, no. 39, Sotheby & Co., London, June 16, 1938, lot 26 (unsold)
Literature
Bernard Rackham, Apollo, August, 1937, pl. 5
Charles Damiron, Majoliques italiennes, Paris, 1944, no. 39
Charles Damiron, Majoliques italiennes, Paris, 1944, no. 39
Exhibited
Staffordshire, England, Hanley Museum, The Damiron Collection, 1937
Giovanni Conti, Nobilissime Ignobilità della Maiolica Istoriata, Museo internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza, October 1992, pp. 92-93
Giovanni Conti, Nobilissime Ignobilità della Maiolica Istoriata, Museo internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza, October 1992, pp. 92-93