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PROPERTY FROM THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND (LOTS 53-72)

AN URBINO MAIOLICA BIBLICAL CHARGER

CIRCA 1580-1600, PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA BIBLICAL CHARGER
CIRCA 1580-1600, PATANAZZI WORKSHOP
The center painted with Gideon choosing his warriors, identified on the reverse 'Giedeo selegit co[n]tra/madian IVD IIIII', reserved on a white ground painted with grotteschi among putti, torchères and songbirds within radiating panels, the narrow border similarly decorated
18 7/8 in. (47.9 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, no. M94.
William A. Clark, 1926.

Literature

Bode, cat. no. 368.
Breckenridge, p. 111.
Watson, cat. no. 114.
Wilhelm Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, 1897, p. 120, cat. 368.
James D. Breckenridge, "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark ,
Collection", The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 3, April 1955, cat. 111.
Wendy M. Watson, Italian Rennaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, London, 1987, cat. no. 114.

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the reverse translates as 'Gideon Selecting his Forces against the Midian, Book of Judges, 5', a slight error in that the story of how Gideon chose his troops by the manner in which they drank from a stream is recounted in chapter 6 of the Book of Judges.

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