CIRCA 1500

Details

A Venetian enamelled armorial small bowl
Circa 1500
With flared sides, everted rim and an applied trailed footring, the centre enamelled in iron-red, blue and yellow with a coat-of-arms surrounded by four rosettes with traces of gilding and within a white enamelled dot cartouche, the border with a gilt band incised with ovals, edged in dentil ornament and enriched with white, blue and red enamelled dots
6.1/8 in. (15.5 cm.) diam.

Literature

Baumgartner 1995, pp. 16 and 79, no. 158.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, May-September 1995, no. 158.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Small clear glass armorial bowls do not appear to be recorded in the literature; however, for another bowl of similar size and with the same decorative border in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, see Fitzwilliam 1978, p. 66, no. 141.

Cf. Roth, 1987, p. 76, no. 11, for a maiolica example painted with the same arms, there given to the Marquis de' Aboli.

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