AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO FLASK AND STOPPER

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO FLASK AND STOPPER

CIRCA 1545-1550, PROBABLY THE WORKSHOP OF FRANCESCO DURANTINO

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA ISTORIATO FLASK AND STOPPER
CIRCA 1545-1550, PROBABLY THE WORKSHOP OF FRANCESCO DURANTINO
Of typical teardrop form with scrolling branch handles and threaded cover, painted overall with the story of Jupiter and Io, on a pierced socle
14¼ in. (36.1 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, no. M65.
William A. Clark, 1926.

Literature

Bode, cat. no. 345.
Watson, cat. no. 109.
Wilhelm Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, 1897, p. 116, cat. 345.Wendy M. Watson, Italian Rennaissance Maiolica from the William A. ,
Clark Collection, London, 1986, cat. no. 109.

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Lot Essay

See Catherine Join-Dieterle, Musée du Petit Palais, Catalogue de Céramiques I - Hispano-Mauresques, Majoliques Italiennes, Isnik, des Collections Dutuit, Ocampo et Pierre Marie, Paris, 1984, cat. 78 for a flask in the Petit Palais attributed to the Workshop of Orazio Fontana. In Wendy Watson's opinion, both it and the present example were painted by Francesco Durantino.

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