A DOCUMENTARY ISTORIATO TAZZA

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A DOCUMENTARY ISTORIATO TAZZA
URBINO, DATED 1549, BY FRANCESCO DURANTINO

The footed dish painted on a white ground in shades of yellow, blue, green, ochre and manganese enriched with white with the story of Priapus and Lotis, the underside inscribed with the subject and the date 1549 and in red with Sackler number 82.3.3 (minor rim chips restored, test drill holes to footrim filled)--9 7/8in. (25cm.) diam.
Provenance
With Cyril Humphris, London
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 86

Lot Essay

See Lessman, nos. 163 and 165 for a dish dated ?? also attributed to Durantino and inscribed by the same hand, as can be seen in a comparison of the writing style and in particular of the formation of the number 5 and the letter S.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s27 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 400 and 610 years ago (1376-1586).