1590-1595

Details

An Antwerp maiolica two-handled Madonna and Child porridge bowl
1590-1595
(Papkom) painted in colours, the inside with a medallion depicting a half-length portrait of the radiating Madonna and Child, within a border of stylised leaf decoration and a obliquely hatched rim, with leaf-shaped diaperwork handles pierced with an aperture (restored)
24.2 cm. wide
See illustration

Literature

P. Biesboer, Nederlandse Maiolica 1550-1650, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 51, ill. 49.

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Lot Essay

Other Antwerp maiolica porridge bowls can be found in the Maagdenhuis in Antwerp. The charitable hospice for female orphans was founded in 1552 and contains an unique collection of 63 porridge bowls in its museal premises. Only one other example is to be found in the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. These bowls were for daily use. They were inspired by renaissance Italian maiolica examples and produced around 1552 probably in the workshop of Guido Andries alias Guido di Savino, who originally came from the area of Castel Durante in the duchy of Urbino.

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