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MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
Details
AN URBINO MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED OVIFORM VASE
MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
With mask terminals and snake handles, painted with the Triumph of Galatea, the nymph borne by Hippocampi, in a continuous seascape; broken socle and damages
16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high
MID TO LATE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
With mask terminals and snake handles, painted with the Triumph of Galatea, the nymph borne by Hippocampi, in a continuous seascape; broken socle and damages
16¼ in. (41.3 cm.) high
Provenance
The collection of Joseph Marryat, sold Christie's, 9-16 February 1867, lot 884, (one of a pair). Purchased by John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910) for £44, and by descent to Charles Robert, 6th Earl Spencer (1857-1922) at Spencer House, where photographed on the chimney piece in the Dining Room in 1916 and in Lord Spencer's Room (The Palm Room) in 1920.
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), by whom removed to Althorp, Northamptonshire, circa 1926.
Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975), by whom removed to Althorp, Northamptonshire, circa 1926.
Literature
W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937, no. 370.
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