A DERUTA GOLD LUSTRED TONDINO

CIRCA 1520

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A DERUTA GOLD LUSTRED TONDINO
CIRCA 1520
The white-glazed front decorated in blue and gold lustre with the 'peacock feather eye' pattern spreading from a central rosette (rim with flaking, very slight chipping and small chip, edge of well and footrim with flaking to glaze, two minor short hairline cracks from rim, very small minor chip to footrim)
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's Geneva, 26th April 1972, lot 109.

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of plates and tondini of this type, see T. Wilson and E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, 2007, Vol. II, pp. 90-93, no. 93, where Sani points out a unifying feature of pieces of this type (of all sizes) is that they have tin-glazed, un-decorated and un-inscribed reverses, which is unexpected as large Deruta dishes usually have lead-glazed reverses, sometimes with inscriptions or initials. For a discussion of the form (and the date of its use) and a similar example in Cambridge, see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1995, p. 171, no. 242.

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