A PAIR OF ISTORIATO CANDLESTICKS

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

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A PAIR OF ISTORIATO CANDLESTICKS
URBINO, CIRCA 1560, POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF ORAZIO FONTANA

Each with cylindrical nozzle and everted rim on a balustre stem and waisted circular base with domed foot, painted in yellows, greens, blues and manganese and heightened with white, the interior of the nozzles yellow, the nozzle, stem, and top of the base with amorini amidst clounds, the domed foot with towns along a coast, one also with a river god reclining on an upturned urn, the undersides undecorated and applied with collector labels (one with repaired nozzle and stem, and base rim, the other with repaired nozzle rim, both with minor glaze chips)--7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

[Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris]
[With Joseph Duveen, New York]
Philip Lehman, New York
Pauline Lehman Ickelheimer, New York (his daughter)
Robert Lehman, New York (her brother)

Lot Essay

The shape of these candlesticks is based on that of brass candlesticks of the same period.

Cf. J. Rasmussen, The Robert Lehman Collection: X - Italian Maiolica, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, nos. 90, 91, 98, 99, 104, 105, 106 & 107 for four other pairs of istoriato candlesticks of varying shapes including examples similarly attributed