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A TUSCAN MAIOLICA DISH

CIRCA 1510, POSSIBLY MONTELUPO

Details

A TUSCAN MAIOLICA DISH
CIRCA 1510, POSSIBLY MONTELUPO
The center with a unicorn recumbent between stylized trees and enclosed within concentric banding, the paneled border with conjoined lozenges enclosing flower-heads
13 in. (33 cm.) diameter

Provenance

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

Literature

Molinier, cat. no. 458.
Breckenridge, p. 11.
Joan Prentice von Erdberg, "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art", Burlington Magazine, 97, 1955, p. 72.
Paul L. Grigaut, et al., Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, Detroit, 1958, cat. no. 96.
Watson, cat. no. 86.
Emile Molinier, Collection Emile Gavet, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1889, cat. 458.
James D. Breckenridge, "Italian Maiolica in the W.A. Clark Collection", The Corcoran Gallery of Art Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 3, April 1955, cat. 11.
Joan Prentice von Erdberg, "Italian Maiolica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art", Burlington Magazine, 97, 1955, p. 72.
Paul L. Grigaut, et al., Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, Detroit, 1958, cat. 96.
Wendy M. Watson, Italian Rennaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, London, 1986, cat. no. 86.

Exhibited

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, Decorative Arts of the Italian Renaissance, 1400-1600, no. 96.

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Lot Essay

For a similar Montelupo dish with the same border design but with a wolf rather than a unicorn at the center, see J.E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 2005, col. pl. 8, cat. no. 173.

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