A DERUTA GOLD LUSTRE 'BELLA DONNA' CHARGER

CIRCA 1520

Details

A DERUTA GOLD LUSTRE 'BELLA DONNA' CHARGER
CIRCA 1520
Painted in shades of blue and enriched with gold lustre, the centre with a portrait of a finely dressed young woman with her golden hair in plaits, a scrolling ribbon behind her inscribed A SAE AVAN ZACHIFo RTVNA PAS A · against a partially shaded blue ground, the shaded blue border with a candeliere lustre scrolls and foliage, the reverse lead glazed, footrim pierced for suspension (crack from rim at 7 o'clock through centre stapled on reverse, large chip to border at 12 o'clock with small associated repair, smaller chipping to rim and foot, reverse with narrow area of overpainting by rim perhaps disguising flaking)
16 5/16 in. (41.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Rev. Thomas Berney, Bracon Hall, Norfolk
Miss Berney, sale Sotheby's, London, 18th June 1946, lot 39.
Robert Strauss Collection, sale Christie's, London, 21st June 1976, lot 32.

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Lot Essay

The inscription ASAE AVANZA CHI FORTUNA PASA is a Florentine proverb which roughly translates as 'He advances considerably who overtakes fortune'.

For a later charger with a lady with plaited hair in a similar pose, see C. Fiocco, et al., Majoliques Italiennes du Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Lyon, Dijon, 2001, p. 119, no. 81.

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