Lot Essay
Giovanni Battista Vitelli founded the Confraternitá dell' Oratorio del Buon Gesù as a religious society in Foligno in 1561.
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1631, ATTRIBUTED TO UMBRIA
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An Italian maiolica polychrome dated commemorative plate
1631, ATTRIBUTED TO UMBRIA
Depicting an elderly bearded man in black attire kneeling behind a pew decorated with the monogram of Christ in front of an altar, inscribed to the border EFIGIE.DIGIOVA.BATTISTA.VITELLI.DA. F.OLIGNO FODATORE. DELL'ORAT.ORIO.NELLA.SVAPATRIA VERA. (Image of Giovanni Battista Vitelli from Foligno, founder of the oratorio, in his true fatherland), the reverse dated 1631 to the centre surrounded by blue ray decoration (minor small chips to the rim)
20.2 cm. diam.
1631, ATTRIBUTED TO UMBRIA
Depicting an elderly bearded man in black attire kneeling behind a pew decorated with the monogram of Christ in front of an altar, inscribed to the border EFIGIE.DIGIOVA.BATTISTA.VITELLI.DA. F.OLIGNO FODATORE. DELL'ORAT.ORIO.NELLA.SVAPATRIA VERA. (Image of Giovanni Battista Vitelli from Foligno, founder of the oratorio, in his true fatherland), the reverse dated 1631 to the centre surrounded by blue ray decoration (minor small chips to the rim)
20.2 cm. diam.
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