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AN ISTORIATO TONDO

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AN ISTORIATO TONDO
DUCHY OF URBINO, CIRCA 1550

Of cardinal's hat form, painted on a white ground in shades of blue, yellow, green, orche and manganese enriched with white with the myth of Daphne and Apollo, the underside inscribed with the subject and in red with Sackler number 82.3.4 (pierced for hanging, restored chip at 3 o'clock and associated crack straight across and over the edge of the well, diagonally up between mountains and down to exit the rim at 6 o'clock, test drill holes to footrim filled)--9¾in. (24.8cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Alfred Spero, London
With Cyril Humphris, London

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., no. ?
San Francisco, CA, no. 81

Lot Essay

The inscription reads: fuge dafan genti dalbion dappollo (Gentle Daphne flees from the fair-haired Apollo).

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s28 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 350 and 530 years ago (1456-1636).