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Lot Essay
Cf. Angelica Alvera' Bartolotto, Maiolica a Venetia nel Rinascimento, pl. 38.
Details
A Venice small tazza
Circa 1560
Painted in the workshop of Maestro Domenico with Danae about to receive the golden shower and reclining beneath a blue and orange canopy, Cupid with a bow to the right, within a yellow line rim (two rim chips near 12 o'clock and several smaller rim chips, two small star-cracks to underside)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.
Circa 1560
Painted in the workshop of Maestro Domenico with Danae about to receive the golden shower and reclining beneath a blue and orange canopy, Cupid with a bow to the right, within a yellow line rim (two rim chips near 12 o'clock and several smaller rim chips, two small star-cracks to underside)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sir Otto Beit.
Mrs. A. Bull, sale Christie's London, 24 October 1946, lot 15 (unsold at 5 gns), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Mrs. A. Bull, sale Christie's London, 24 October 1946, lot 15 (unsold at 5 gns), and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Van den Put and Bernard Rackham, op. cit., (1916), no. 860.
Exhibited
Formerly on loan to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Special notice
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