AN URBINO MAIOLICA CRESPINA

CIRCA 1570-80

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AN URBINO MAIOLICA CRESPINA
CIRCA 1570-80
Painted with Cupid holding a flaming arrow and a shield within landscape, within a broad border of grotteschi, including lions, owls and mythical beasts, within a band of coffering and ochre-line rim (lacking section of foot, chip to rim and glaze chipping)
10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

For a full discussion of this type of decoration and its association with the Fontana and Patanazzi workshops see Julia Poole, Italian maiolica and incised slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 396-404, and p. 339, no. 429 for a dish painted with a youth in the centre within a similar border to that on the present lot.

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