A LARGE ISTORIATO TONDO

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A LARGE ISTORIATO TONDO
URBINO, CIRCA 1550-1560, BY ORAZIO FONTANA

Of cardinal's hat form, painted on a white ground in strong shades of blue, yellow, green, ochre and manganese enriched with white with Hannibal Crossing the Ebro, the underside inscribed with the subject and in red with Sackler number 79.5.14 (Test drill holes to footrim filled)--12 7/8in. (32.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Alfred Spero, London
With Cyril Humphris, London

Literature

R.E.A. Drey, Article on the Hannibal Plates?? , Italian Renaissance Pottery: papers written in association with a colloquium at the British Museum, London, 1991, pp.....

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., no. 58
San Francisco, CA, no. 82

Lot Essay

The inscription reads: Annibale passato io fiume Ibero, Piu Terre acquista al'Africano impero (Hannibal crosses the river Ebro to acquire more territory for the African empire).

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r59 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 300 adn 480 years ago (1505-1685).