AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA CRESPINA

FAENZA, ATTRIBUTED TO VIRGILIOTTO CALAMELLI, CIRCA 1545

Details

AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA CRESPINA
FAENZA, ATTRIBUTED TO VIRGILIOTTO CALAMELLI, CIRCA 1545
The central boss painted with a singer playing a lute, the basin painted a quartieri with radiating fluted panels of acanthus alternately reserved on a blue or ochre ground, the border alternate with an ochre rosette on a blue ground above the ochre panels and a spiral reserved on a green ground above the blue panels, the underside shell-moulded and painted with radiating blue, white, and ochre on yellow stripes
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Charles Damiron, Lyon, no. 3?? (partial paper collection label)

Lot Essay

For similar dishes, see Important Italian Maiolica from The Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Part I); Christie's, New York, 6 October 1993, lot 26; also Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue de majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, nos. 937-957.

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