Lot Essay
For a very similar plate in the British Museum, see D. Thornton and T. Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. II, pp. 515-516, no. 315.
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CIRCA 1525-30, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI
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A GUBBIO GOLD AND COPPER LUSTRED DISH
CIRCA 1525-30, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI
The centre painted with Cupid standing in a mountainous landscape with a lustred sky, the steaky blue-ground reserved with copper and gold lustre a candeliere scrolls, foliage, tridents and wings, within a lustred band border, the reverse with three lustred lines radiating from the centre (broken into two pieces between 2 and 7 o'clock and repaired, rim with very slight chipping and flaking to glaze)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
CIRCA 1525-30, PROBABLY WORKSHOP OF MAESTRO GIORGIO ANDREOLI
The centre painted with Cupid standing in a mountainous landscape with a lustred sky, the steaky blue-ground reserved with copper and gold lustre a candeliere scrolls, foliage, tridents and wings, within a lustred band border, the reverse with three lustred lines radiating from the centre (broken into two pieces between 2 and 7 o'clock and repaired, rim with very slight chipping and flaking to glaze)
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Sir George Lindsay Holford Collection, Dorchester House, Park Lane, London, 1927, according to the paper label attached to reverse.
(This dish does not appear to be recorded in the 13th July 1927 Christie's sale of items from Dorchester House and Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, or the Christie's Westonbirt sale on 17th October 1927, or the Christie's Dorchester House sale on 19th April 1928. It is possible it could appear in the Phillips 30th April-2nd May 1928 Dorchester House sale).
(This dish does not appear to be recorded in the 13th July 1927 Christie's sale of items from Dorchester House and Westonbirt, Gloucestershire, or the Christie's Westonbirt sale on 17th October 1927, or the Christie's Dorchester House sale on 19th April 1928. It is possible it could appear in the Phillips 30th April-2nd May 1928 Dorchester House sale).
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