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CIRCA 1550
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A Venice istoriato fluted crespina
Circa 1550
Painted with Diana and her scantily-clad attendants watching Actaeon turning into a stag, between trees and rockwork, a fortified town and blue mountains in the distance, beneath blue and ochre clouds, the reverse inscribed hacteon co uerso/inceruio, on a circular spreading foot (some minor chipping and flaking to rim and footrim, small crack to rim at 3 o'clock)
12 in. (30.5 cm.) diam.
Circa 1550
Painted with Diana and her scantily-clad attendants watching Actaeon turning into a stag, between trees and rockwork, a fortified town and blue mountains in the distance, beneath blue and ochre clouds, the reverse inscribed hacteon co uerso/inceruio, on a circular spreading foot (some minor chipping and flaking to rim and footrim, small crack to rim at 3 o'clock)
12 in. (30.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sir Otto Beit, and thence by descent to the present owners.
Literature
A. Van den Put and Bernard Rackham, op. cit., (1916), no. 862.
Exhibited
Formerly on loan to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
Special notice
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