CIRCA 1590-1600, PROBABLY PATANAZZI WORKSHOP

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA ARMORIAL BOWL AND COVER
CIRCA 1590-1600, PROBABLY PATANAZZI WORKSHOP
The white ground painted overall with grotteschi and reserved at the front with a panel enclosing a coat-of-arms surmounted by a helmet, the interior with a similar coat-of-arms below further grotteschi, the cover en suite, all within faux rope-twist borders
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Bt., DSO, MC, TD, Somerhill, Kent.
By descent to Lady d'Avigdor-Goldsmid and Mr and Mrs James Teacher; sold Sotheby's, 24 June 1981, lot 487.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 April 2008, lot 38.

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Lot Essay

This bowl was probably part of an 'accouchement' set, used to serve broths to women after childbirth; see W.M. Watson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, Philadelphia, 2001, pp. 138-140, for an example of related form from the Stein collection. For a similar cover from the Victoria & Albert Museum described as 'the tagliere from an accouchement set, forming also the lid of a bowl', see B. Rackham, Catalogue of Italian Maiolica, London, 1940, vol. II, pl. 168, no. 1053.

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