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A FAENZA MAIOLICA PLATE

LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY

Details

A FAENZA MAIOLICA PLATE
LATE 15TH/EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Of cardinal's hat form, painted with a central 'candelabrum' among scrollwork, within concentric patterned bands including trellis and pearls
9 1/8 in. (23 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Collection Emile Gavet, Paris.
William A. Clark, 1926.

Literature

Emile Molinier, cat. no. 443.
Breckenridge, p. 16.
Watson, cat. no. 71.

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Lot Essay

Emile Molinier, Collection Emile Gavet, Catalogue Raisonné, ,
Paris, 1889, cat. 443.
James D. Breckenridge, "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection",The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 3, April 1955, cat. 16
Wendy M. Watson, Italian Rennaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, London, 1986, cat. no. 71.

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