CIRCA 1548-1563, POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF LUDOVICO AND ANGELO PICCHI

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A CASTEL DURANTE MAIOLICA CRESPINA
CIRCA 1548-1563, POSSIBLY WORKSHOP OF LUDOVICO AND ANGELO PICCHI
Painted with Lucretia standing in an interior holding a dagger in her right hand and with a flowing robe or veil about her, flanked by soldiers and other male figures, within a robbiana, the broad scalloped-moulded border painted with alternate panels of a mythological figure scantily-draped in flowing robes, alternating with lions standing foresquare within petal-shaped blue and pale-yellow ground panels edged with leafy branches, the gadroon-moulded reverse edged in blue, within a yellow lined rim, foot lacking and ground down, minor chipping to rim
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) wide

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Rome, 29 June 1978, lot 372.

Literature

Hugo Morley-Fletcher and Roger McIlroy, Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery, Oxford, 1978, p. 79, no. 9.
Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, Italian Renaissance Ceramics, a Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 2009, Vol. I, p. 391, note 8 (unillustrated).

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Lot Essay

The Picchi workshop was one of the leading Castel Durante workshops from the late 1540s until the founding brothers Ludovico and Angelo Picchi moved to Rome in 1563. Although it is not known which artist painted the present dish, a dish by the same hand decorated with Neptune and Minerva within a similar panelled border (most likely from the same service) is in the collection of the British Museum, see Dora Thornton and Timothy Wilson, ibid, pp. 390-391, no. 232. See also a crespina of the same type decorated with Judith and Holophernes, formerly in the Arthur M. Sackler Collection, Part II, sold by Christie's, New York, 1 June 1994, lot 37.

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