Lot 27
27
AN ISTORIATO DISH

Details
AN ISTORIATO DISH
PESARO, CIRCA 1540

The shallow bowl with narrow rim, painted on the white ground in shades of yellow, blue, green, ochre and manganese on enriched with white with the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, the underside inscribed with the subject within concentric yellow lines and in red with Sackler number 78,2,16 (minor rim chips tidied, test drill holes to footrim filled)--10¼in. (25cm.) diam.
Provenance
Philip Harris ??
With Cyril Humphris, London
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. 60
San Francisco, CA, no. 71

Lot Essay

The inscription reads: fabula·de·Andromida · E · persia (The legend of Andromeda and Perseus).

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381q61 dated September 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 360 and 520 years ago (1465-1625).