A DERUTA LUSTRED PIATTO DA POMPA

CIRCA 1520-30

Details

A DERUTA LUSTRED PIATTO DA POMPA
Circa 1520-30
Lustred in blue and gold on a white ground with the portrait bust of a Roman hero to left, a foliate letter C at the left, within a scale-pattern surround, the rim with alternating radiating panels of scales, vertical geometric patterns and large leaves
16in. (41.9cm.) diam.

Provenance

Winter Collection, Sotheby & Co. London, 29 June 1964, lot 7
George Farrow, Esq., Sotheby & Co. London, 10 June 1969, lot 165 (#1,000 to J.G. Consigli)
Anon. sale., Christie's London, 2 July 1979, lot 165
With Bernheimer, Munich
The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, no. 79.6.2, Christie's New York, 1 June 1994, lot 10

Literature

H. Morley-Fletcher and R. McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, London, 1984, p. 55, fig. 6

Exhibited

San Francisco, CA, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 5 July 1986-1988

Lot Essay

Cf. J. Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des muses nationaux, Paris, 1974, no. 556 for a plate in the collection of the muse du Louvre pounced from the same cartoon as the present example

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r78 dated December 1985 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 340 and 500 years ago (1485-1645).