Lot 60
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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
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PROPERTY FROM THE CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITION FUND (LOTS 53-72)
AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE

POSSIBLY CIRCA 1550-1575, FAENZA AND WORKSHOP OF VIRGILIOTTO CALAMELLI

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AN ITALIAN MAIOLICA BLUE-GROUND TWO-HANDLED VASE
POSSIBLY CIRCA 1550-1575, FAENZA AND WORKSHOP OF VIRGILIOTTO CALAMELLI
Of baluster form, flanked by upright lion-head handles suspending rings from their mouths surmounting satyr-mask terminals, painted front and back with a winged putto either holding a flaming torch or a spear and shield among the clouds, reserved on a field of scrolling vine
14¼ in. (36.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Oscar Hainauer, Berlin (by tradition).
William A. Clark, 1926.
Literature
Breckenridge, p. 42.
Watson, cat. no. 74.
James D. Breckenridge, "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 3, April 1955, cat. no. 42.
Wendy M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Mailoica from the William A. Clark Collection, London, 1987, cat. no. 74.

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See Johanna Lessman, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, Italienische Majolika, Brunswick, 1979, cats. 39-43 for similarly decorated pieces and cat. 187 for another of similar form attributed to the Fontana Workshop in Urbino.

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