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A LARGE MAIOLICA CHARGER
DERUTA, CIRCA 1515
The heavily potted dish painted in blues, greens, ochre and yellow on a cream ground, the well with a blindfolded Cupid beneath a baldacchino inscribed 'AMOR.VOL.FIDIA.' resting on a litter surrounded by torches and attendant putti, the rim with yellow strapwork on an ochre ground, the underside with a cream slip covered in a straw glaze, with Lehman collection label inscribed 'c 128', with Pringsheim collection label inscribed with catalogue number '361', with Fogg Art Museum loan label inscribed '543.1939' and with an unidentified orange collection label (foot rim pierced for hanging, cracked in half and repaired, edges worn) ----- 17in. (33cm.) diam.
DERUTA, CIRCA 1515
The heavily potted dish painted in blues, greens, ochre and yellow on a cream ground, the well with a blindfolded Cupid beneath a baldacchino inscribed 'AMOR.VOL.FIDIA.' resting on a litter surrounded by torches and attendant putti, the rim with yellow strapwork on an ochre ground, the underside with a cream slip covered in a straw glaze, with Lehman collection label inscribed 'c 128', with Pringsheim collection label inscribed with catalogue number '361', with Fogg Art Museum loan label inscribed '543.1939' and with an unidentified orange collection label (foot rim pierced for hanging, cracked in half and repaired, edges worn) ----- 17in. (33cm.) diam.
Provenance
Alexander Barker, by 1862
Sir Francis Cook, 1870
Humphrey Cook; Christie's, London, July 7, 1925, lot. ? (L... to ...)
Dr. Alfred Pringsheim, London; Sotheby & Co., 8 June, 1939, lot 55 (as probably by Giovanni Maria, early 16th century; L250 to Goldschmidt on behalf of Robert Lehman)
Robert Lehman, New York
Sir Francis Cook, 1870
Humphrey Cook; Christie's, London, July 7, 1925, lot. ? (L... to ...)
Dr. Alfred Pringsheim, London; Sotheby & Co., 8 June, 1939, lot 55 (as probably by Giovanni Maria, early 16th century; L250 to Goldschmidt on behalf of Robert Lehman)
Robert Lehman, New York
Literature
B. Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica and Other Pottery, 8 Cadogan Square, London, no. ?
O. von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, Berlin, 1923, Vol. II, no. 361
O. von Falke, Pantheon, August 1929, plate 4, p. 365 (as possibly Deruta)
O. von Falke, Die Majolikasammlung Alfred Pringsheim in München, Berlin, 1923, Vol. II, no. 361
O. von Falke, Pantheon, August 1929, plate 4, p. 365 (as possibly Deruta)
Exhibited
London, South Kensington Museum, Special Exhibition of Art in the South Kensington Museum, 1862, no. 5157
Leeds, 1868
Leeds, 1868