Lot 114
114
A EWER AND BASIN

Details
A EWER AND BASIN
URBINO, CIRCA 1580 - 1590, WORKSHOP OF THE PATANAZZI

The ewer of inverted pear shape with broken scroll rim, the handle formed as two snakes rising from a grotesque mask, decorated a candelieri with alternating bands of grotesschi on a white ground and putti on a black ground, the basin similarly decorated, the emplacement with a drunken putto sitting on a wine cask against a black ground enclosed within a cartouche of scrolls and herm figures, the well with mythical beasts and grotesschi on a white ground, the rim with putti and beasts within scrolls and against a black ground (extensive repairs to both ewer and basin)--the ewer 12 3/8 in.
(31.4 cm.) high, the basin 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
[Baron Alphone 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

Cf. Darcel, M.A., Receuil de faïences Italiennes des XVe XVIe et XVIIe siècles (M. le Comte de Nieuwerkerke), Paris, 1869, plate 2 for a ewer formerly in the collection of Baron Gustave de Rothschild which is similar in profile to the present example and also painted with putti amidst scrolls on a black ground and flanking an oval reserve.