Details
A DERUTA CHARGER
CIRCA 1525-1560
Painted with a huntsman in a mountainous landscape with stylised ochre trees, the huntsman with an axe in his raised right hand, wearing a yellow tunic and buskins, his hound nearby attacking a striped boar, the border with a band of oval foliate panels enclosing foliage, within an ochre band rim, the reverse with two pierced holes for suspension (crack at 1 o'clock towards the centre restored on border, crack beside dog, chipping to rims and some flaking to edge of well, damage to footrim, two further holes drilled to footrim)
16¾ in. (42.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Charles Damiron Collection, Lyons; sale Sotheby's, London, 16th June 1938, lot 23.
Henry Scipio Reitlinger Collection, Maidenhead,
Reitlinger Trust sale (sold anonymously); Sotheby's, London, 27th April 1954, lot 157.
Ferdinand Adda Collection; sale Palais Galliera, Paris (sold anonymously as a 'Collection d'un grand amateur'), 29th November - 30th December 1965, lot 510.
Cocchi Collection.
Paolo Sprovieri Collection.
Literature
Joseph Chompret, Repertoire de la Majolique Italienne, Paris, 1949, Vol. II, p. 106, Fig. 830.
Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, London, 1959, pp. 106-107, no. 383 and pl. 169.
Giovanni Conti, Una collezione di maioliche del Rinascimento, Milan, 1984, no. 24.
Carola Fiocco and Gabriella Gherardi, La ceramic di Deruta dal XIII al XVIII secolo, Perugia, 1994, p. 200, no. 84.
Timothy Wilson, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance, Milan, 1996, p. 73, no. 33, and illustrated on p. 75.
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. 74-75.
Exhibited
Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, La Via della Ceramica tra Umbria e Marche, June 2010 - January 2011, no. 1.
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