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A LUSTRED PLAQUE

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A LUSTRED PLAQUE
DERUTA, CIRCA 1530-1540

Lustred in gold and painted in blue and ochre on a white ground moulded with Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the reverse with a fragmentary paper description label and inscribed in red with Sackler number 82.3.7 (upper right corner cracked off and restored, luster refreshed above the hanging holes pierced into the center of the top and outlined with flower petals)--10¼ x 8 3/8in. (26 x 21.3cm.)

Provenance

Private Collection, Italy
With Cyril Humphris, London

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 45

Lot Essay

Cf. Giacomotti, no. 746 for another example in the collection of the Musée nationale Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges (no. 812). The present example has an extremely fine lustre. The use of the flat ochre as a counterpoint to the metallic sheen of the gold and the cobalt outlining of the moulded figures point to its origin in a Deruta workshop.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s31 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 340 520 years ago (1466-1646).