AN ISTORIATO TAZZA

CIRCA 1550, DUCHY OF URBINO

Details

AN ISTORIATO TAZZA
Circa 1550, Duchy of Urbino
The footed shallow bowl painted on a white ground in shades of yellow, blue, green, ochre and manganese enriched with white with the story of Pyramus and Thisbee
9in. (23cm.) diam.

Provenance

With Bernheimer, Munich
The Arthur M. Sackler Collections, no. 79.6.13

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, no. 92

Lot Essay

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381r98 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 350 and 530 years ago (1455-1635).