Lot 70
70
A LUSTRED MAIOLICA TONDO

Details
A LUSTRED MAIOLICA TONDO
PAINTED AT CASTEL DURANTE, LUSTRED AT GUBBIO, DATED 1519

Reserved a trophei on a blue ground and heightened with gold and ruby lustre, dated on a scroll below an winged angel head '1519' and inscribed with the motto 'omnia p(er) pecuniae fatta' on a similar scroll, the underside decorated in lustre with three scroll motifs alternating with a geometric motif and enclosed on both sides with three concentric bands, with the remains of a collector's number painted in red and an oval outlined in yellow (edge worn, surface chip retaired at 5 o'clock) ----- 9½in. (24.5cm.) diam.
Provenance
Dr. Bak, New York; Sotheby & Co., London, December 7, 1965, lot 52
(#1,000 as by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli)
Robert Lehman, New York

Lot Essay

Cf. G. Ballardini, Corpus della maiolica italiana, Vol. I: Le maioliche datate fino al 1530, Rome, 1933, figs. 258, 260-262 for similar examples from the same workshop. Cf. also B. Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1977, revised edition, Vol. I, no. 644, Vol. II, plate 101 for another Gubbio plate dated 1519 and with a silimarly lustred underside.