A PAIR OF FLORENCE GLAZED TERRACOTTA BASKETS OF FRUIT in the manner of the Della Robbia workshop, the circular biscuit coloured baskets moulded to simulate wicker and piled with luxuriant naturally modelled and coloured fruits, foliage and flowers including, lemon, grapes, gherkins, pears and pomegranates and with a green lizard, a frog, two snails and two grasshoppers (one basket with repair to footrim and lower part, both with parts of foliage and part of one fruit lacking), early 16th century

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A PAIR OF FLORENCE GLAZED TERRACOTTA BASKETS OF FRUIT in the manner of the Della Robbia workshop, the circular biscuit coloured baskets moulded to simulate wicker and piled with luxuriant naturally modelled and coloured fruits, foliage and flowers including, lemon, grapes, gherkins, pears and pomegranates and with a green lizard, a frog, two snails and two grasshoppers (one basket with repair to footrim and lower part, both with parts of foliage and part of one fruit lacking), early 16th century
about 26cm. wide (2)
Literature

Lot Essay

Cf. Jeanne Giacomotti, op. cit., no. 357

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