AN URBINO ISTORIATO PLATE

CIRCA 1630, PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

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AN URBINO ISTORIATO PLATE
CIRCA 1630, PATANAZZI WORKSHOP
Painted with Abraham greeting Melchizedek by the gates of Jerusalem, Abraham's soldiers on the right dressed in Roman armour and with pikes, shields and swords, Melchizedek dressed as a Christian Bishop with a mitre, presenting Abraham with loaves of bread, his attendants with wine in a large ewer, within an ochre band rim, the reverse inscribed Abram da le de cime delle spolie al sacerdote (broken across from 10 to 3 o'clock and restuck, very slight associated losses along break, two triangular sections of border at 3 o'clock restuck with larger associated losses at break, minor filled rim chip at 4 o'clock, very slight chipping to rim)
10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm.) diam.

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; Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1981, lot 444.

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Lot Essay

For a group of vases with similar Biblical scenes attributed to the Patanazzi workshop, see Johanna Lessmann, Italienische Majolika Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick, Catalogue, Brunswick, 1979, pp. 246-253, nos. 276-289.

The scene is from Genesis, Chapter 14, Verses 18-24, which relates how Lot had been captured and robbed of his possessions. Abraham succeeded in releasing him and recovering his possessions, and arrived at Jerusalem in triumph, where he was met by Melchizedek, the King and the priests, who gave him bread and wine.

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