AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA PLATE

CIRCA 1600-25, PROBABLY PESARO

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA PLATE
CIRCA 1600-25, PROBABLY PESARO
The centre with Cupid holding a spear and shield within a border of leaf-shaped panels decorated a graticcio, divided by blue and yellow circles within a yellow and ochre rim, some slight rim chipping and flaking
9 in. (23 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired from Alfred Spero, London, 3 February 1961.

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Lot Essay

See Riccardo Gresta, 'Ill Passaggio della Maiolica Pesarese dal Cinquecento al Seicento', Pesaro della Devoluzione all'Illuminismo, Vol. IV.2, 2009, p. 223, nos. 56-59 for a plate and related fragments with the distinctive trellis-pattern panels similar to the present example. See also Sergio Nepoti, Maioliche a Mondaino Fra XV e XVII secolo, 1997, pp. 42-43, tav. XVIII and XXI for fragments with similar figure and pattern decoration to the present plate.

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