Lot Essay
For a similar dish painted with Bacchus see Winterthurer Keramik exhibition catalogue (Winterthur, 1989) p. 60, no. 78, and p. 52, no. 64 for a dish with very similar quality of painting.
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LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
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A Winterthur large dish
Last quarter of the 17th Century
The centre painted with the young Bacchus with a garland of grapes about his head, holding a tazza with a bunch of grapes in his left hand and sitting on a barrel, the broad flat border divided by plums, a bunch of grapes, a pomegranate and a split pomegranate (crack from rim at 12 o'clock, small crack from rim at 3 o'clock)
15.7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) diam.
Last quarter of the 17th Century
The centre painted with the young Bacchus with a garland of grapes about his head, holding a tazza with a bunch of grapes in his left hand and sitting on a barrel, the broad flat border divided by plums, a bunch of grapes, a pomegranate and a split pomegranate (crack from rim at 12 o'clock, small crack from rim at 3 o'clock)
15.7/8 in. (40.3 cm.) diam.