A DUTCH FAIENCE URBINO-STYLE CRESPINA, painted in colours in the Italian 'grotesque' style, the central 'boss' with a winged cherub holding an orb surmounted by a cross, the gadrooned border with grottesche in the Patanazzi-style, the wavy border hatched, circa 1620

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A DUTCH FAIENCE URBINO-STYLE CRESPINA, painted in colours in the Italian 'grotesque' style, the central 'boss' with a winged cherub holding an orb surmounted by a cross, the gadrooned border with grottesche in the Patanazzi-style, the wavy border hatched, circa 1620
27 cm diam.

Lot Essay

cf. F.W. Hudig, Delfter Fayence, ill. 69 for a similar Crespina.
The pattern derived from designs made by the Urbino factory in the second half of the 16th Century, based on paintings in the Loggia of the Vatican by Giovanni da Udine, a pupil of Raphael. The Umbrian factory of Deruta adopted this type of ornament, reproduced in a rougher manner. The Dutch glaze is more unctuous than that used at Deruta. (compare the two putti crespine (lots 193-194) with the architectural crespina (lot 195))

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