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

A DERUTA MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED VASE

CIRCA 1525-1550

Details

A DERUTA MAIOLICA TWO-HANDLED VASE
CIRCA 1525-1550
Of shield shape flanked by scroll handles, painted front and back with a bust-length female portrait, the initial 'G' beside one head, the initial 'S' beside the other, the neck and sides painted with grotteschi among arabesques and lion-headed foliate scrolls
11 1/8 in. (28.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, no. M89.
William A. Clark, 1926.

Literature

Bode, cat. no. 364.
Watson, cat. no. 104.
Wilhelm Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer, Berlin, 1897, p. 119, cat. 364.
Wendy M. Watson, Italian Rennaissance Maiolica from the William A. Clark Collection, London, 1987, cat. no.

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Lot Essay

A similar two-handled vase, the portraits with the initials 'A' and 'F' is in the Dutuit Collection at the Petit Palais, Paris. See C. Join-Dieterle, Musée du Petit Palais, Catalogue de Ceramiques I - Hispano-Mauresques, Majoliques Italiennes, Isnik, des Collections Dutuit, Ocampo et Pierre Marie, Paris, 1984, cat. 24 where mention is made of a third in the Museo Regionale della Ceramica Umbra, Deruta.

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