CIRCA 1510-20, DERUTA OR GUBBIO

Details

AN UMBRIAN MAIOLICA GOLD AND RUBY-LUSTRE FOOTED DISH
CIRCA 1510-20, DERUTA OR GUBBIO
The central well, painted with a bust-length portrait of a woman to the right, wearing a ruby and gold robe and flanked by ruby flowers and gold foliage, the blue-ground border reserved with interlocking scrolls and stylised scrolling foliage enriched in red and gold lustre, the reverse with concentric ruby bands, chipping and losses to foot, faint glaze crack running around border, some chipping to rim and minor glaze flaking to well
9 1/8 in. (23.1 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Sir Alfred Beit, Bt., MP. Collection; Sotheby's sale, London, 16 October 1942, lot 59.
Ferdinand Adda Collection; sale Palais Galliera, Paris (sold anonymously as a 'Collection d'un grand amateur'), 29 November - 30th December 1965, lot 597.

Literature

A. van de Put, Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Possession of Mr. Otto Beit, Chiswick (Private Press), 1916, no. 802, pp. 54-55 and p. 93.
Lord Balniel, Kenneth Clark and Ettore Modigliani, A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, 1931, p. 317, cat no. 1047.
Bernard Rackham, La Raccotta Beit di Maioliche Italiane, Estratto dal 'Bollettino d'Arte' del Ministerio dell'Educazione Nationale, VIII, February 1932, fig. 5.
Bernard Rackham, Islamic Pottery and Italian Maiolica, London, 1959, p. 171, no. 386A.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, January - March 1930.

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Lot Essay

Inventory nos. 802 and 56. in red enamel to the reverse.

Versions of this portrait appear on dishes attributed to Deruta in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, see Julia E. Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 168-169, no. 238 and 239. Poole suggests that the flowers, perhaps carnations or pinks, were symbols of love and such dishes may have been betrothal or wedding gifts. Similar border designs attributed to Gubbio are illustrated by Jeanne Giacomotti, Catalogue des majoliques des musées nationaux, Paris, 1974, pp. 212-213, nos. 682 and 686.

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