An Urbania shallow footed bowl

CIRCA 1670

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An Urbania shallow footed bowl
Circa 1670
Painted by Ippolito Rombaldoni with the Four Doctors of the Church discussing their texts beneath a tree and loosely draped in blue, yellow, green and ochre clothes with grasses in the foreground and hills in the distance, the underside with concentric blue and yellow circles (chips to foot, some slight chips and flaking to rim)
11in. (28cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

For the most recent discussion of this painter see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1995), no. 375, pp. 303/4. Another Urbania dish of this type was sold in these Rooms on 1 March 1993, lot 307.

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