Lot 71
71
A MAIOLICA TONDO

Details
A MAIOLICA TONDO
CASTEL DURANTE, CIRCA 1520, WORKSHOP OF GIOVANNI MARIA

Of cardinal's hat form, painted in ochre, green and blue, the well with Cupid standing on a chariot flanked by two winged putti, the sides of the well in bianco-sopra-bianco with verticle bands of geometric patterns, the rim reserved on a blue ground a candelieri with trophies and flowers, the underside with the shape outlined in blue bands on a cream ground, with paper collection label printed '194' and inscribed in pencil with Pringsheim sale lot number '399', with paper label typed with inventory number 'L.53.45.146' (minor chips and wear to rim, foot rim worn) ----- 9½in. (24cm.) diam.
Provenance
J.E. Taylor Collection, no. 106 (illus.)
Frederic Spitzer, 1893, no. 158
Dr. Alfred Pringsheim, Munich; Sotheby & Co., London, July 19-20, 1939, lot 399 (L140 to Goldschmidt on behalf of Robert Lehman)
Robert Lehman, New York
Literature
La Collection Spitzer, Vol. IV, plate 9
O. von Falke, Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, Berlin, 1916, Vol. I, no. 158, plate 84
B. Rackham, "A Maiolica Plate by Giovanni Maria", Burlington Magazine, January 1930, p. 32

Lot Essay

Cf. O. von Falke, Sammlung Richard Zschille, Katalog der Italienischen Majoliken, Leipzig, 1899, no. 8 [ex-collection Baron James Rothschild; Christie's, London, June 1, 1899, lot 1] for another plate similarly painted with two putti flanking a third standing on a wheeled chariot but catalogued as Faenza or Cafaggiolo, circa 1515. This plate is referred to as from the workshop of Giovanni Maria in B. Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Vol. I, p. 170, as is no. 522, illustrated on plate 87. Cf. also B. Rackham, "Italian Maiolica", Faenza, 1930, A.IX, part IV, plate 28c.