Lot 10
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A FAENZA BLUE-GROUND TONDINO
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A FAENZA BLUE-GROUND TONDINO

CIRCA 1520-1535

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A FAENZA BLUE-GROUND TONDINO
CIRCA 1520-1535
The central yellow-ground circular medallion painted with a winged putto holding a palm frond in one hand and a sling in the other, a staff passing diagonally between his legs, standing on a green mound with green drapery on the right, the white well with scrolls and edged with bands of blue dentil ornament, the blue-ground broad border reserved with brightly coloured grotteschi with leaping dolphins, masks, pendant swags, palmettes and scrolling foliage, the underside with concentric blue bands
9 9/16 in. (24.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Johann Fürst von und zu Liechtenstein (1840-1929) Collection (printed paper collection label attached to reverse)
Blumka Collection, sale Sotheby's, New York, 9th-10th January 1996, lot 26.
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Lot Essay

A similar tondino in a private collection, Berlin, is illustrated by Tjark Hausmann, Fioritura, Blütezeiten der Majolika Eine Berliner Sammlung (Berlin, 2002), pp. 102-104, no. 39. Also see A.V.B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogue of Ceramics 1, Pottery, Maiolica, Faience, Stoneware (London, 1976), no. C49 for a similar example.

The underside of this tondino is illustrated at the end of the catalogue.

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