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A DERUTA MAIOLICA SALT
A DERUTA MAIOLICA SALT
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A DERUTA MAIOLICA SALT

CIRCA 1620-30

Details
A DERUTA MAIOLICA SALT
CIRCA 1620-30
Of waisted square form, the well painted half in blue, half in yellow, winged sphinxes wearing green caps applied at the corners, raised on four paw feet
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) square
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 108.

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Lot Essay

For two similar models in the collection of Braunschweig Museum, see J. Lessmann, Italienische Majolika, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Braunschweig, 1979, p. 373, n. 538 and p. 374, n. 539; for examples of two other models, see Christie's, London, 17 April 2000, lot 55. Also see B. Rackham, The Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1977, vol. II, pl. 169, cat. no. 1059.

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