CIRCA 1550-60

Details

A DUCHY OF URBINO ACCOUCHEMENT SET BOWL AND COVER
CIRCA 1550-60
The interior of the circular bowl painted with a lady and an attendant washing her hands, in a bed chamber, the bowl exterior with a landscape and buildings, on a circular socle foot, the top of the flat cover with a bare-breasted woman and a child within clouds enclosed by a ribbon-tied garland border, the underside with Cupid among clouds holding garlands (two small repaired chips to rim, slight chipping and glaze flaking to rims, cover with two slight chips to rim)
The cover 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm.) diam.

Literature

Ettore A. Sannipoli et al., La Via Della Ceramica Tra Umbria e Marche, Maioliche Rinascimentali da Collezioni Private, Gubbio, Exhibition Catalogue, Città di Castello, 2010, pp. 268-269.

Exhibited

Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, La Via della Ceramica tra Umbria e Marche, June 2010 - January 2011, no. 3·33a-b.

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Lot Essay

Details of the interior of the bowl, the top of the cover and the interior of the cover are illustrated on page 11.

For a similar 'accouchement set' bowl and cover painted with buildings and landscapes on the exterior in the same dark palette and free style, and with similar figures and interior scenes, see Tjark Hausmann, Majolika. Spanische und Italienische Keramik vom 14. Bis zum 18. Jahrhundert, Kataloge des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin VI, Berlin, 1972, pp. 287-289, no. 208, where it is attributed to the Urbino workshop of the Fontana family.

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