Lot 32
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AN ISTORIATO DISH

Details
AN ISTORIATO DISH
PESARO, CIRCA 1540

With small shallow well and wide rim, painted on a white ground in shades of yellow, blue, green, ochre and manganese enriched with white highlights with Pyramus and Thisbee within yellow line rim, the underside inscribed in red with Sackler number 78.2.17 (crack from 9 o'clock into the center and with associated star cracks, test drill holes filled)--10 5/8in. (27cm.) diam.
Provenance
With Alfred Spero, London
With Cyril Humphris, London
Literature
Bellini and Conti, pl. 142c
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., no. 62
San Francisco, CA, no. 72

Lot Essay

Cf. Lessman, no. 461 for a similar dish painted with the same distinctive knees, clouds, striated sky and angle profile of the nose; also no. 464 for a dish with similarly executed architectural details

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381q62 dated December 1985 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 (1455-1635).