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A SMALL MAIOLICA 'BELLA DONNA' SHALLOW DISH
DERUTA, CIRCA 1505
The thinly potted saucer painted in blues, ochres and green on a cream ground, the convex center with the portrait of a woman to right, inscribed along the circumference 'BELA PVLISENA', the sloping sides painted a quartieri with panels of scales and a stylized acanthus, the underside inscribed in the center '*R**', the side with a band of ovoid medallions filled with horizontal hatching against a dotted ground, with paper loan label from the Fogg Art Museum, Lehman collection label 'C126' and an unidentified collection label inscribed in type '112' (two large chips repaired at 10-11 o'clock, rim chip restored in the same area) ----- 6¾in. (17cm.) diam.
Provenance
Dr. Alfred Pringsheim, Munich; Sotheby & Co., London, June 7-8, 1939, lot 37 (#36 to Goldschmidt on behalf of Robert Lehman)
Robert Lehman, New York
Literature
O. von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, Berlin, 1916, Vol. I, no. 75
Exhibited
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1942, no. 578.1939
Duveen Brothers, New York, November 5, 1943
