Lot 39
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A DERUTA BOWL AND COVER
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A DERUTA BOWL AND COVER

CIRCA 1600

Details
A DERUTA BOWL AND COVER
CIRCA 1600
The exterior painted with panels of grotteschi, on a circular spreading foot, the domed cover similarly decorated and with two green scroll handles flanking a knop finial, the bowl interior with a reclining female figure attended by a putto (cover with small areas of restoration to finial and chipping to rim, bowl with chipping to rims, rim with hairline crack)
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high
Provenance
Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Bt., DSO, MC, TD, Somerhill, Kent
By descent to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and Mr and Mrs James Teacher, sale Sotheby's 24th June 1981, lot 483.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

This bowl could perhaps have been part of an 'accouchement' set (see the footnote for the previous lot). For a Deruta bowl of related form, see Jörg Rasmussen, Italian Majolica in the Robert Lehman Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (New York, 1989), pp. 230-231, no. 150.

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