Details
A TWO SALTS
URBINO, CIRCA 1575, WORKSHOP OF THE PATANAZZI
Each with a circular basin supported on the heads and wing tips of three griffins tied together at the waist and sitting on a shaped triangular base, painted on a white ground in ochre, yellow, blue and green, the basins and bases with grotteschi, the undersides inscribed in red with Sackler numbers 79.6.7a and 79.6.7b (a few restored chips, nicks to wing tips and noses, test drill holes to both undersides)--5 7/8in. (15cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Earl of Rosebery, 'Mentmore', Sotheby & Co., London, Mentmore, Vol. 3, May 24, 1977, lot 2200
With Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, London; Christie's , London, July 2, 1979, lot 132
With Konrad Bernheimer, Munich
