SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY

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A CASTELLI LARGE ARMORIAL DISH
SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY
Painted in the manner of Francesco Grue, in a blue, green, ochre, yellow and manganese palette, the centre with a scene from the life of Alexander the Great, Alexander covering the body of Darius after an engraving by Antoine Tempesta, Alexander on horseback covering the body lying in a horse drawn chariot among a crowd of Greek and Persian solders on horseback and Persians in the distance within a yellow ground well with a band of manganese trailing flowering foliage, the rim with radiating panels of trophies and surmounted with the coat-of-arms of the Medici (restoration and overpainting to coat-of-arms, slight chipping and retouching to rim)
17 5/8 in. (44.7 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

For a dish with a scene taken from the same engraving see Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des Majoliques des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1974, p. 469, no. 1379.

For the engraving see Antoine Tempesta, Histoire d'Alexandre (Alexandri Magni praecipuae res gestae), Rome, 1608, pl X; Bartsch, XVII, 554.

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