AN ITALIAN (URBINO) MAIOLICA FOOTED PUZZLE BOWL

CIRCA 1550

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AN ITALIAN (URBINO) MAIOLICA FOOTED PUZZLE BOWL
CIRCA 1550
The pierced rim with four spouts, the interior painted with two men carrying or filling barrels of wine before an arched doorway, the sea in the background, the exterior with a continuous view of a village
8¾ in. (22.1 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

See Important Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Part II), Christie's, New York, 1 June 1994, lot 29, for an Urbino tondo with a similar tree and mountain as on the present example. Also see Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 273, pl. 869 for an Urbino dish featuring windows with similar circles and Johanna Lessmann, Italienische Majolika, Braunschweig, 1979, p. 75, pl. 35 for an Urbino dish painted with X-shapes in the windows that are similar to the brickwork on the present puzzle bowl.

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