Lot Essay
Indistinct inventory number A: 170-15 (?) in black ink or paint on the underside.
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CIRCA 1570, POSSIBLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
Details
AN URBINO BOWL FROM AN ACCOUCHEMENT SET (VASCHETTA DA PARTO)
CIRCA 1570, POSSIBLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
Of bulbous form, the exterior finely painted with four small cameo panels surrounded by grotteschi between elaborate borders, on a spreading circular foot, the base of the interior with a mother sitting on the edge of a canopied bed breast-feeding an infant (crack around half of lower part, very small restored chips to rim and footrim, small minor shallow chip to underside of footrim)
4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm.) high
CIRCA 1570, POSSIBLY FONTANA WORKSHOP
Of bulbous form, the exterior finely painted with four small cameo panels surrounded by grotteschi between elaborate borders, on a spreading circular foot, the base of the interior with a mother sitting on the edge of a canopied bed breast-feeding an infant (crack around half of lower part, very small restored chips to rim and footrim, small minor shallow chip to underside of footrim)
4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous Private Collection sale, Sotheby's, Florence, 11th October 1972, lot 54.
Literature
Giuliana Gardelli, op. cit., 1987, pp. 130-131, no. 54.
Exhibited
Urbino, Palazzo Ducale, July - September 1987
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Dominic Simpson