AN URBINO ISTORIATO SMALL FOOTED DISH (ALZATINA)

CIRCA 1525, THE 'MILAN MARSYAS PAINTER'

Details

AN URBINO ISTORIATO SMALL FOOTED DISH (ALZATINA)
CIRCA 1525, THE 'MILAN MARSYAS PAINTER'
Painted with St. John The Baptist, St. Felicity and St. Anthony of Padua, St. John on the left, wearing ragged animal skins and holding a cruciform nimbus with a white versillo inscribed ECCE ANGUS (sic.) DEO, St. Felicity holding a palm and St. Anthony holding a heart, a classical building to the right, before a landscape with hazy blue distant hills, the underside with a double concentric yellow band border, a similar border around the low circular foot (chipping to rim, minor hairline crack from rim at 12 o'clock and 5 o'clock)
6 15/16 in. (17.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 12th December 1974, lot 27
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 26th April 1983, lot 64.

Literature

Giuliana Gardelli, op. cit., 1987, pp. 66-67, no. 22.

Exhibited

Urbino, Palazzo Ducale, July - September 1987

Brought to you by

Dominic Simpson

Check the condition report or get in touch for additional information about this

dsimpson@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3024

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

View condition report

Lot Essay

This alzatina appears to be by the artist John Mallet has called 'The Milan Marsyas Painter'.1 He identified a group of pieces which share similar stylistic traits to the inscribed tondino (depicting Marsyas) in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (inv. 133).2 This anonymous artist's style is very similar to that of Nicola da Urbino's early work.

1. See Mallet, 'Xanto: i Suoi Compagni e Seguaci', in Rovigo, 1988, pp. 69-73, and figs. 6 and 6R.
2. For an illustration of the Castello Sforzesco piece, see T. Wilson and E. Sani, Le maioliche rinascimentali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, 2007, Vol. I, p. 102.

More from The Art of the Italian Potter, Maiolica and Porcelain from a Private Collection

View All