Lot 135
135
AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER BASIN
AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER BASIN

PALERMO, 1622-1624, ATTRIBUTED TO GIANCOLA VIVANO, WITH CONSUL'S MARK OF FRANCESCO RAGUSEO

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AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER BASIN
PALERMO, 1622-1624, ATTRIBUTED TO GIANCOLA VIVANO, WITH CONSUL'S MARK OF FRANCESCO RAGUSEO
Circular, with a border of strapwork and shells, within an inner beaded border and an engraved rim, the sides of the well with a frieze of waves with sea-creatures and birds with shells and strapwork between on a textured ground, the raised centre with similarly chased with sea-creatures and centred with a vacant shield, marked on border
17 1/2 in. (44.4 cm.) diam.
47 oz. 13 dwt. (1,482 gr.)
Provenance
A Lady; Christie's, London, 1 December 2004, lot 768.

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Lot Essay

A similar dish of the same year struck with the same consul's mark is the Museo Nazionale Pepoli di Trapani and is illustrated in M. Accasina, I Marchi delle Argenti e Oreficerie Siciliane, Trapani, 1976, p.48, pl. V. fig. 7. The maker's mark GV which has been attributed to Giancola Viviano. He is later recorded to have worked in the Cassa Reliquiario di Santa Rosalia nella Cattedrale di Palermo between 1631 and 1637.

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